Yellow-crowned Canary / Serinus flavivertex
Yellow-crowned Canary
SCI Name:
Protonym: Crithagra flavivertex Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist. ser. 4, Vol. IV, N° 23 p. 330
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Serinus
Taxonomy Code: yeccan1
Type Locality: 'Tigre'', Abyssinia; type from Adigrat, Tigre Province, Abyssinia, fide W. L. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., p. 817.
Author: Blanford
Publish Year: 1869
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SERINUS
(Fringillidae; Ϯ European Serin S. serinus) Specific names Loxia Serinus Scopoli, 1769, and Fringilla Serinus J. Gmelin, 1789; "LIII. Gattung. Girlitz. Serinus. (Tab. VI. A. Fig. 50.) ... Ein niedliches Vögelchen mit dickem weichfederigem Kopfe, etwas leichtem Körper, langen etwas breiten Flügeln und einem ziemlich kurzen, breiten, gabelförmigen Schwanze. Die sehr kurzen, schwachen Füße sind zum Hüpfen, die vier Zehen mit schwachen gebogenen Nägeln versehen. Seine Nahrung besteht in allerlei Samen. Eine Art. 143. Gelbbrüstiger Girlitz. Serinus hortulanus. Grüngelb; der Oberleib schwärzlich und rost-grau gefleckt; Kehle und Brust bis fast in die Mitte des Bauchs schön grüngelb. Loxia serinus. Gmel. Lin. S. I. p. 908. n.17. = Meyers und Wolfs t. p. 146. Fringilla citrinella. Bechst. orn. T. p. 123." (Koch 1816); "Serinus Koch, 1816, Syst. Baierischen Zool., Säug. Vögel, 1, p. 228, pl. 6A, fig. 50. Type, by monotypy, Serinus hortulanus Koch = Fringilla serinus Linnaeus." (Rand in Peters 1968, XIV, 208). In ornithology this name has been associated with a variety of European finches.
Var. Serinsu.
Synon. Alario, Canaria, Chlorindus, Crithologus, Dryospiza, Metoponia, Oraegithus, Pronospiza.
serinus
French Serin canary, serin (origin obscure; said to be a corruption from L. citrinus citron-coloured, or cerinus waxy-yellow, but Cabard & Chauvet 2003, refer to Med. Provençale Serena bird that feeds on bees < Gr. σειρην seirēn, σειρηνος seirēnos unknown small singing bird; Gessner 1555, gives the Italian names of this bird as Serin and Scartzerino).
● ex “Serin” of Brisson 1760 (Serinus).
flavivertex
L. flavus yellow, golden-yellow; vertex, verticis crown of the head < vertere to turn.
SUBSPECIES
Yellow-crowned Canary (flavivertex)
SCI Name: Serinus flavivertex flavivertex
flavivertex
L. flavus yellow, golden-yellow; vertex, verticis crown of the head < vertere to turn.
Yellow-crowned Canary (sassii)
SCI Name: Serinus flavivertex sassii
sassi / sassii
Dr Moritz Sassi (1880-1967) Austrian zoologist, Natural History Mus., Vienna 1926-1941 (syn. Accipiter minullus, syn. Euplectes albonotatus eques, syn. Nucifraga caryocatactes macrorhynchos, syn. Phalacrocorax punctatus, subsp. Serinus flavivertex).
Yellow-crowned Canary (huillensis)
SCI Name: Serinus flavivertex huillensis
huilensis / huillensis
Huíla Province, Angola.
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)