Sporophila Beltoni Bird

Sporophila Beltoni Bird

Sporophila Beltoni Bird

English Name:  Tropeiro Seedeater
Latin Name:  Sporophila beltoni
Protonym:  Sporophila beltoni Auk 130 (4) 791–803
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sporophila
Taxonomy Code:  trosee1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Repenning & Fontana
Publish Year:  2013
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

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.

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Dr William Henry Belton (1914-2009) US diplomat 1938-1970, ornithologist, conservationist, pioneer sound-recordist in Brazil (Sporophila).