Sporophila Murallae Bird

Sporophila Murallae Bird

Sporophila Murallae Bird

English Name:  Caqueta Seedeater
Latin Name:  Sporophila murallae
Protonym:  Sporophila aurita murallae Bull.Am.Mus.Nat.Hist. 34 p.649
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sporophila
Taxonomy Code:  caqsee1
Type Locality:  La Muralla [= Morelia] , 600 ft., Caqueta, Colombia.
Author:  Chapman
Publish Year:  1915
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.

murallae
La Muralla (= La Murelia), Caquetá, Colombia.