Pale-throated Pampa-Finch / Embernagra longicauda
Pale-throated Pampa-Finch
SCI Name:
Protonym: Embernagra longicauda Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist.(1), 13 p.420
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Embernagra
Taxonomy Code: ptpfin1
Type Locality: South America.
Author: Strickland
Publish Year: 1844
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
EMBERNAGRA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Great Pampafinch E. platensis) Portmanteau of genera Emberiza Linnaeus, 1758, bunting, and Tanagra Linnaeus, 1764, tanager; "VI.e Sous-genre. EMBERNAGRE; Embernagra. Les Tangaras-Bruants. Bec alongé, conique, à arête presque droite, pointue, à bords renflés, bordés; narines ouvertes, rondes; ailes courtes, dépassant à peine le croupion; queue longue, inégale, comme étagée, à rectrices terminées en pointe; tarses longs, forts, robustes. 58.º TANGARA FABIALATU; Tanagra fabialatu, Mus. de Paris. De la Plata. 59.º TANGARA DES BUISSONS; Tanagra dumetorum, Mus. de Paris. ... Du Brésil." (Lesson 1831); "Embernagra Lesson, 1831, Traité d'Ornith., p. 465. Type, by virtual monotypy, Tanagra dumetorum Lesson = Emberiza platensis Gmelin." (Paynter in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 131).
Synon. Limnospiza.
longicauda
L. longus long; cauda tail.
● ex “Merle à longue queue du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 220, and “Vert-doré” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (syn. Lamprotornis caudatus).
● ex “Petit Figuier à longue queue de la Chine” of Sonnerat 1776, and “Long-tailed Warbler” of Latham 1783 (subsp. Orthotomus sutorius).
● ex “Plumet-blanc” of Brisson 1760 (syn. Pithys albifrons).
● ex “Perruche de Malac” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 887, “Grand Perruche à long brins” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Malacca Parrakeet” of Latham 1781 (Psittacula).
● ex “Merle Tricolor à Longue Queue” of Levaillant 1801-1804, pl. 114 (unident.).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)