Lined Seedeater
Lined Seedeater
Here the details of the Lined Seedeater named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Loxia lineola Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.174
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sporophila
Taxonomy Code: linsee1
Type Locality: Asia ; error, emended to Surinam by Berlepsch and Hartert, 1902, Novit. Zool., 9, p. 26; further emended to Bahia, Brazil, by de Schauensee, 1952, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 104, p. 177.
Author: Linnaeus
Publish Year: 1758
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. ... 1) σπορος 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. Amazonica, Callyrhynchus, Dolospingus, Drepanorhynchus, Gyrinorhynchus, Microphila, Neorhynchus, Oryzoborus, Spermophila, Spermophilopsis.
lineola
L. lineola little line < dim. linea line < linum thread < Gr. λινον linon flax, thread.
● "96. LOXIA. ... Lineola. 18. L. nigra, linea frontali temporibusque albis. Habitat in Asia. Corpus Magnitudine Pari; supra nigrum, e cæruleo nitidum; subtus album. Rostrum nigrum, gibbum. Linea a fronte ad verticem ducta alba. Macula alba supra maxilla superiore. Remiges nigræ: Primores basi anteriore albæ, unde macula alarum alba. Cauda nigra, bifurcata." (Linnaeus 1758) (Sporophila).
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)