Yellow-bridled Finch / Melanodera xanthogramma
Yellow-bridled Finch
SCI Name:
Protonym: Chlorospiza(?) xanthogramma Zool.Voy.Beagle[Darwin] pt11 p.96 pl.33
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Melanodera
Taxonomy Code: yebfin1
Type Locality: East Falkland Island and Tierra del Fuego.
Author: Gould & Gray, GR
Publish Year: 1839
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MELANODERA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ White-bridled Finch M. melanodera) Specific name Emberiza melanodera Quoy & Gaimard, 1824. "983. Melanodera, Bp. (Chlorospiza hinc Emberiza! p. Gr.) Cum Chlorospizis affinitatem praebet! Amer. merid. 2. 1. CHLOROSPIZA xanthogramma, Gr. nec Blyth.) Emberiza xanthogramma, Gr. Gen. B.) Beagle Voy. t. 33. mas. ex Terra del Fuego, Ins. Falckland. or. 2. EMBERIZA MELANODERA, Quoy et Gaim. (Chlorospiza hinc Emberiza! melanodera, Gr. — M. typica, Bp.) Beagle, Voy. t. 32. mas et faem. ex Patagonia et Ins. Falckland. or." (Bonaparte 1850); "Melanodera Bonaparte, 1851, Consp. Gen. Av., 1 (1850), p. 470. Type, by tautonymy, Emberiza melanodera Quoy and Gaimard." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 108).
melanodera / melanoderus
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos black; δερα dera neck.
xanthogramma
Gr. ξανθος xanthos yellow; γραμμη grammē line < γραφω graphō to write.
SUBSPECIES
Yellow-bridled Finch (White-tailed)
SCI Name: Melanodera xanthogramma barrosi
barrosi
Rafael Barros Valenzuela (b. 1890) Chilean naturalist, collector (subsp. Melanodera xanthogramma).
Yellow-bridled Finch (Yellow-tailed)
SCI Name: Melanodera xanthogramma xanthogramma
xanthogramma
Gr. ξανθος xanthos yellow; γραμμη grammē line < γραφω graphō to write.
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)