Puerto Rican Tanager
Puerto Rican Tanager
Here the details of the Puerto Rican Tanager named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Chlorospingus (?) speculiferus Ibis p.383 pl.9 fig.1
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Nesospingidae / Nesospingus
Taxonomy Code: purtan1
Type Locality: Porto Rico.
Author: Lawrence
Publish Year: 1875
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
NESOSPINGUS
(Nesospingidae; Ϯ Puerto Rican Tanager N. speculiferus) Gr. νησος nēsos island (= Puerto Rico); σπιγγος spingos finch < σπιζω spizō to chirp; "6. NESOSPINGUS SPECULIFERUS. Chlorospingus speculiferus, Lawr. Ibis, 1875, p. 383, pl. ix, fig. 1; Gundl. J. f. O. 1878, p. 168, 1882, p. 161(nest), et Añ. Soc. Esp. H. N. 1878, p. 190. ... Hab. Porto Rico. This peculiar Antillean form can, I think, hardly be referred to Chlorospingus; it has a much stouter and thicker bill and large Fringilline feet. I am not sure that its correct position is not with the Ground-Finches (Pipilo &c.), but for the present I propose to leave it among the Tanagers under a separate generic name." (P. Sclater 1885); "Nesospingus P. L. Sclater, 1885, Ibis, p. 273. Type, by monotypy, Chlorospingus speculiferus Lawrence." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 254).
speculifer / speculifera / speculiferum / speculiferus
Mod. L. speculifer bearing mirrors < L. speculum, speculi mirror < specere to look at; -fera -bearing < ferre to bear.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)