Cochabamba Mountain-Finch
Cochabamba Mountain-Finch
Here the details of the Cochabamba Mountain-Finch named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Compsospiza garleppi Ibis p.208 pl.6
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Poospiza
Taxonomy Code: comfin1
Type Locality: Vacas, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Author: von Berlepsch
Publish Year: 1893
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
POOSPIZA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Black-and-rufous Warblingfinch P. nigrorufa) Gr. ποα poa, ποας poas grass, meadow; σπιζα spiza finch < σπιζω spizō to chirp; "Poospiza nov. gen. Einige der Chipiu Azara's, welche bisher, wie die folgenden Synonyme zeigen, bald hier bald dort untergebracht wurden, bilden die hier zu begründende Gattung Poospiza. ... Ausser einigen in Bezug auf die Synonymie noch nicht gehörig festgestellten Arten stellen wir zu Poospiza: 1. P. nigrorufa. ... 2. P. thoracica. ... 3. P. lateralis." (Cabanis 1847); "Poospiza Cabanis, 1847, Archiv. f. Naturg., 13, p. 349. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 75), Emberiza nigrorufa d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 117).
Var. Paospiza, Poaspiza, Poespiza.
Synon. Compsospiza, Orospingus.
garleppi
Gustav Adolf Garlepp (1862-1907) German collector in tropical America 1883-1907 (Crypturellus, subsp. Merganetta leucogenis, syn. Molothrus oryzivorus, syn. Phaethornis pretrei, Poospiza, subsp. Rhea tarapacensis).
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)