Black-and-tawny Seedeater

Black-and-tawny Seedeater / Sporophila nigrorufa

Black-and-tawny Seedeater

Here the details of the Black-and-tawny Seedeater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Sporophila nigrorufa
Protonym:  Pyrrhula nigro-rufa Mag.Zool. 7 cl.2 p.87
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  batsee2
Type Locality:  Chiquitos, Bolivia.
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Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  

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.

nigrorufa / nigrorufus
L. niger  black; rufus  red.
● ex “Coucal Noirou” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 220 (Centropus).