Sporophila Albogularis Bird

Sporophila Albogularis Bird

Sporophila Albogularis Bird

English Name:  White-throated Seedeater
Latin Name:  Sporophila albogularis
Protonym:  Loxia albogularis Av.Sp.Nov.Brasil. 2 p.46 pl.60 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sporophila
Taxonomy Code:  whtsee1
Type Locality:  Brazil ; restricted to Bahia by Hellmayr, 1906, Abh. Bayern Akad. Wiss. Math.-phys. Kl., 22(3), p. 679.
Author:  von Spix
Publish Year:  1825
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.  ...  1σπορος 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. AmazonicaCallyrhynchus, Dolospingus, Drepanorhynchus, Gyrinorhynchus, Microphila, Neorhynchus, Oryzoborus, Spermophila, Spermophilopsis.

albogulare / albogularis
L. albus  white; Mod. L. gularis  throated, of the throat  < L. gula  throat.