Streaked Rosefinch

SCI Name:  Carpodacus rubicilloides
Protonym:  Carpodacus rubicilloides Mongol.StranaTangut. 2 p.90 pl.12
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Carpodacus
Taxonomy Code:  strros1
Type Locality:  Kansu [reference not verified] .
Author:  Przevalski
Publish Year:  1876
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CARPODACUS
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Pallas's Rosefinch C. roseus) Gr. καρπος karpos  fruit; δακος dakos  biter  < δακνω daknō  to bite; "6. Pyrrhula rosea, longicauda, erythrina.   ...   6. Karminfink. Carpodacus *).   E[ntwickelung]. Wie bei Coccothraustes, Chloreus und Pyrrhula.   Ch[arakter]. Hänflinge mit dickem, gewölbtem Schnabel.   L[ebensart]. Sie leben nur von Beeren und Samereien, und haben wenig natürlichen Gesang.   ...   *) Von καρπος, Frucht und δακνω, beißen." (Kaup 1829); "Carpodacus Kaup, 1829, Skizz. Entw. Nat. Syst., 1, p. 161. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1842, List Genera Birds, ed. 2, appen., p. 11), Fringilla rosea Pallas." (Paynter in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 267).   
Var. Carpodagus, Cardopagus.   
Synon. Chaunoproctus, Erythrina, Erythrothorax, Haematospiza, Kozlowia, Papa, Phoenicospiza, Propasser, Propyrrhula, Pyrrhospiza, Pyrrhulinota, Rubicilla, Uragus.

rubicilloides
Specific name Loxia rubicilla Güldenstädt, 1775; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs resembling (Carpodacus).

SUBSPECIES

Streaked Rosefinch (lucifer)
SCI Name: Carpodacus rubicilloides lucifer
lucifer
L. lucifer  light-bearing  < lux, lucis light; -fera  -bearing  < ferre to bear (cf. Roman myth. Lucifer, personification of the evening star Venus).

Streaked Rosefinch (rubicilloides)
SCI Name: Carpodacus rubicilloides rubicilloides
rubicilloides
Specific name Loxia rubicilla Güldenstädt, 1775; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs resembling (Carpodacus).