Sporophila Ardesiaca Bird

Dubois\'s Seedeater / Sporophila ardesiaca

Sporophila Ardesiaca Bird

English Name:  Dubois's Seedeater
Latin Name:  Sporophila ardesiaca
Protonym:  Spermophila ardesiaca Mem.Soc.Zool.France 7 p.399
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sporophila
Taxonomy Code:  dubsee1
Type Locality:  Brazil.
Author:  Dubois, AJC
Publish Year:  1894
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.

ardesiaca / ardesiacea / ardesiacus
Mod. L. ardesiacus  slate-coloured, slaty  < French ardoisé  slate-grey.