Puerto Rican Spindalis / Spindalis portoricensis
Puerto Rican Spindalis
SCI Name:
Protonym: Tanagra portoricensis Proc.BostonSoc.Nat.Hist. 10 p.252
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Spindalidae / Spindalis
Taxonomy Code: purspi
Type Locality: Porto Rico.
Author: Bryant, H
Publish Year: 1866
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SPINDALIS
(Spindalidae; Ϯ Jamaican Spindalis S. nigricephala) Gr. σπινδαλος spindalos or πινδαλος pindalos unknown Indian bird, variously identified but said to be akin to ατταγας attagas. These mainly Antillean birds were formerly known as stripe-headed tanagers; "GENUS SPINDALIS, JARD. & SELBY. CHAR. GEN.—Rostrum subbreve, validum, ad basin trigonum, apice compresso, emarginato, culmine arcuato, tomiis subsinuatis, in medio rostri introrsum inclinantibus; naribus nudis, rotundatis. Alæ mediocres, subrotundæ, remige 1mo. 2do. brevioribus, 3tio. 4toque æqualibus, longissimis. Cauda mediocris, æqualis. Pedes breviusculi subfortes. SPINDALIS BILINEATUS, JARD. & SELBY. .... from Jamaica, in the interior and mountainous part of which island they were procured by our correspondent. Judging from the general characters the bird presents, it appears to belong to the Tanagrinæ or Tanagers (the sub-typical or dentirostral division of the Fringillidæ), a group inhabiting the islands and continent of America; but as it exhibits characters different from any of the established generic divisions belonging to this sub-family, we have thought it necessary to give its peculiar characters." (Jardine & Selby 1837); "Spindalis Jardine and Selby, 1837, Illus. Ornith., new ser., 4, pl. 9. Type, by monotypy, Spindalis bilineatus Jardine and Selby = Tanagra nigricephala Jameson." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 316).
Var. Spindasis (genus Spinus Koch, 1816, siskin; Gr. δασος dasos thicket).
Synon. Spizampelis.
portoricensis
Porto Rico / Puerto Rico.
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)