Yellow-green Chlorospingus / Chlorospingus flavovirens
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Yellow-green Chlorospingus
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Protonym: Buarremon flavovirens Ann.Lyc.Nat.Hist.N.Y. 8 p.467
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Chlorospingus
Taxonomy Code: ygbtan1
Type Locality: Ecuador.
Author: Lawrence
Publish Year: 1867
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
CHLOROSPINGUS
(Passerellidae; Ϯ Common Bush-tanager C. flavopectus ophthalmicus) Gr. χλωρος khlōros green; σπιγγος spingos a form of σπινος spinos, probably identical to σπιζα spiza a finch (< σπιζω spizō to chirp) commonly eaten at Athens, and identified by most authors as the Chaffinch, but the names could just as well have applied to any small bird. In ornithology the epithets spingos and spiza used in combination are not confined to the finches (Fringillidae), but used indiscriminately for an assortment of finch-billed or finch-like birds (e.g. Ploceidae, Thraupidae, Emberizidae, Passerellidae, Cardinalidae, Drepanididae). The Common Bush-tanager, Chlorospingus or Bushfinch and its congeners were formerly treated as tanagers Thraupidae; "Gen. CHLOROSPINGUS nov. gen *) Grün-Ruderfink. 719. 1. Ch. leucophrys Nob. — **) Tanagra leucophrys Licht. in Mus. Berol. ... *) Von χλωρος, grünlich und σπιγγος nom. prop. — In der Bildung der Flügel und des Schwanzes ist die Gruppe der vorhergehenden [Hemispingus] noch sehr ähnlich, der Schnabel hingegen ist stärker, kürzer, höher und daher dem Typus von Pipilo annähernd ähnlich, nur schwächer als in dieser Gattung, welche grössere Formen aufweist und von welcher sich Chlorospingus ausserdem durch nicht abgerundete Flügel und Schwanz wesentlich unterscheidet. **) ... Die folgenden, uns nicht genügend bekannten Arten scheinen der hier beschriebenen sehr ähnlich zu sein: 1. Ch. ophthalmicus. — Arremon ophthalmicus Dubus. Tachyphonus albitempora Lafr. Columbien. — 2. Ch. flavipectus. — Arremon flavopectus Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1840 p. 227. St. Fé d. Bogota. — 3. Ch. canigularis. — Arremon canigularis Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1848 p. 12. — Columbien." (Cabanis 1853); "Chlorospingus Cabanis, 1851, Mus. Heineanum, 1, p. 139. Type, by virtual monotypy, Chlorospingus leucophrys Cabanis = Arremon ophthalmicus Du Bus." (Storer in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 254).
Synon. Hylospingus.
flavovirens
Mod. L. flavovirens, flavovirentis yellowish-green < L. flavus yellow, golden-yellow; virens, virentis green < virere to be green.
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)
