Thick-billed Seed-Finch / Sporophila funerea
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Thick-billed Seed-Finch
SCI Name:
Protonym: Oryzoborus funereus Proc.Zool.Soc.London["1859"] Pt(27)3 ["1859"] Pt(27)3 p.379
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sporophila
Taxonomy Code: tbsfin1
Type Locality: Suchapam, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Author: Sclater, PL
Publish Year: 1860
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SPOROPHILA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Temminck's Seedeater S. falcirostris) Gr. σπορος sporos seed < σπειρω speirō to sow; φιλος philos lover; "62. Gen. Sporophila 1) Cab. Pyrrhula Tem. part. Spermophila Swains. 1827. ... 1) σπορος sperma." (Cabanis 1844); "Sporophila Cabanis, 1844, Archiv f. Naturg., 10 (1), p. 291. New name for Spermophila Swainson, 1827, preoccupied by Spermophila Richardson, 1825." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 133) (see Spermophila).
Var. Sporofila, Sporoptula, Sporophilus.
Synon. Amazonica, Callyrhynchus, Dolospingus, Drepanorhynchus, Gyrinorhynchus, Microphila, Neorhynchus, Oryzoborus, Spermophila, Spermophilopsis.
funerea / funereus / funeria
L. funereus funereal, ill-omened < funus, funeris funeral (e.g. black or dark coloured, as if in mourning).
● "42. STRIX. ... funerea. 7. S. capite lævi, corpore fusco, iridibus flavis. Fn. svec. 51. Ulula flammeata. Frisch. av. t. 98? Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Aegolius).
● ex “Black Linnet” of Edwards 1764 (Vidua).
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)
