Yellow-shouldered Grassquit / Loxipasser anoxanthus
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Yellow-shouldered Grassquit
SCI Name:
Protonym: Spermophila anoxantha BirdsJamaica p.247
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Loxipasser
Taxonomy Code: yesgra1
Type Locality: Mount Edgecumbe, Jamaica.
Author: Gosse
Publish Year: 1847
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
LOXIPASSER
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Yellow-shouldered Grassquit L. anoxanthus) Portmanteau of genera Loxia Linnaeus, 1758, crossbill, and Passer Brisson 1760, sparrow; "Pyrrhulagra. Loxia portoricensis Daud. ... The subgenus Loxigilla Lesson was founded on Fringilla noctis. The type of Bonaparte's subgenus Pyrrhulagra is the present bird, and includes violacea of the Bahamas, etc., but not anoxantha which may form the type of a third subgenus, Loxipasser, nearly allied to Spermophila and Phonipara. These three birds show well the folly of modern generic divisions, either of them approximating more closely to older genera than to each other." (Bryant 1866).
Var. Loxiipasser.
anoxantha / anoxanthus
Gr. ανω anō above, upperparts; ξανθος xanthos yellow.
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)
