Spotless Starling / Sturnus unicolor
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Spotless Starling
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Protonym: Sturnus unicolor Man.Orn.[Temminck].ed.2 ed.2, 1 p.133
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Sturnidae / Sturnus
Taxonomy Code: sposta1
Type Locality: Sardinia.
Author: Temminck
Publish Year: 1820
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
STURNUS
(Sturnidae; Ϯ Common Starling S. vulgaris) L. sturnus starling; "94. STURNUS. Rostrum subulatum, angulato-depressum, obtusiusculum: Mandibula superiore integerrima, marginibus patentiusculis. Nares supra marginatæ. Lingua emarginata, acuta." (Linnaeus 1758); "Sturnus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 167. Type, by tautonymy, "Sturnus" = Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus." (Amadon in Peters1962, XV, 104). Linnaeus's Sturnus comprised four species (S. vulgaris, S. Luteolus, S. Contra, S. Cinclus). The Common Starling is a widespread commensal of man, native from Britain to Lake Baikal and Kashmir, but introduced throughout much of the globe.
Var. Sturmus.
Synon. Psar, Quiscalis.
unicolor
L. unicolor, unicoloris plain, uniform, of one colour < uni- single- < unus one; color, coloris colour.
● ex “Tanagra unicolor” of Lichtenstein MS (Haplospiza).
● ex “Perroquet Lori unicolore” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (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)
