Sporophila Nuttingi Bird

Sporophila Nuttingi Bird

Sporophila Nuttingi Bird

English Name:  Nicaraguan Seed-Finch
Latin Name:  Sporophila nuttingi
Protonym:  Oryzoborus nuttingi Proc.U.S.Natl.Mus. 6 p.401,note
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sporophila
Taxonomy Code:  nisfin1
Type Locality:  Los Sabalos, Nicaragua.
Author:  Ridgway
Publish Year:  1884
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.

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Prof. Charles Cleveland Nutting (1858-1927) US marine biologist, ornithologist, collector (subsp. Leptotila verreauxi, Myiarchus, Sporophila).