Socotra Bunting / Emberiza socotrana
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Socotra Bunting
SCI Name:
Protonym: Fringillaria socotrana Bull.Liverp.Mus. 2 p.2
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Emberizidae / Emberiza
Taxonomy Code: socbun1
Type Locality: Adho Dimellus, 4,000 ft., Socotra.
Author: Ogilvie-Grant & Forbes
Publish Year: 1899
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
EMBERIZA
(Emberizidae; Ϯ Yellowhammer E. citrinella) Old Swiss German name Embritz for a bunting < Old German Ammer bunting. "97. EMBERIZA. Rostrum conicum. Mandibulæ basi deorsum a se invicem discedentes: inferiore lateribus inflexo-coarctata; superiore angustiore." (Linnaeus 1758); "Emberiza Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 177. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Genera Birds, ed. 1, p. 47), Emberiza citrinella Linnaeus." (Paynter in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 5). Linnaeus's Emberiza comprised fourteen species (E. nivalis, E. Calandra, E. Hortulana, E. Citrinella, E. Orix, E. Quelea, E. militaris, E. atrata, E. familiaris, E. flaveola, E. psittacea, E. paradisæa, E. Ciris, E. Alario).
Var. Emberyza, Emberitza, Embritza, Embriza, Emberisa, Emeberiza.
Synon. Buscarla, Chrysophrys, Cia, Cirlus, Citrinella, Cosmospina, Cristemberiza, Crithophaga, Cynchramus, Fringillaria, Fringilloides, Glycyspina, Granativora, Hortulana, Hortulanus, Hylaespiza, Hypocentor, Latoucheornis, Melophus, Miliaria, Ocyris, Onychospina, Orospina, Pityornis, Polymitra, Pyrrhulorhyncha, Schaenicola, Schoeniclus, Spina, Spodiospina, Tisa.
socotrae / socotraensis / socotrana / socotranus
Socotra I. / Sokotra / Suqutra, Indian Ocean.
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)
