Speckle-fronted Weaver
Speckle-fronted Weaver
Here the details of the Speckle-fronted Weaver named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Loxia frontalis TraitedOrn.[Daudin] 2 p.445 ydP
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Ploceidae / Sporopipes
Taxonomy Code: spfwea1
Type Locality: Senegal.
Author: Daudin
Publish Year: 1800
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SPOROPIPES
(Ploceidae; Ϯ Scaly-fronted Weaver S. squamifrons) Gr. σπορος sporos seed < σπειρω speirō to sow; οπιπευω opipeuō to gaze, to stare at; "Sporopipes (σπορος, Saame; οπιπτευω, lüstern nach etwas gaffen) scheint, abgesehen von der Kleinheit des Typus, durch Bildung der Charaktere und Färbung des Gefieders am nächsten mit Philetaerus verwandt, unterscheidet sich von dieser Gattung aber genügend durch kürzeren, weniger zusammengedrückten Schnabel und das Vorhandensein der 1sten Schwinge, welche länger als bei den Spermestinen ist. Der Schwanz ist kürzer als die Flügel, ziemlich gerade, schwach ausgerandet. Typus: Sp. lepidopterus. Fringilla lepidoptera Licht." (Cabanis 1847); "Sporopipes Cabanis, 1847, Arch. f. Naturg., 13 (1), p. 332. Type, by original designation, Fringilla lepidoptera Lichtenstein = Estrelda squamifrons A. Smith." (Moreau in Peters 1962, XV, 29).
Synon. Pholidocoma.
frontale / frontalis
L. frontalis fronted, frontal < frontalia or frontale frontlet < frons, frontis forehead, brow (ref. distinctive, contrastingly coloured forehead patch, usually black or red).
● ex “Faucon Huppé” of Levaillant 1798, pl. 28 (syn. Crinifer piscator).
● Front Range, Rocky Mts., Colorado, USA (syn. Otus flammeolus).
● ex “Perruche Ara à Bandeau Rouge” of Levaillant 1801 (Pyrrhura).
SUBSPECIES
Speckle-fronted Weaver (frontalis)
SCI Name: Sporopipes frontalis frontalis
frontale / frontalis
L. frontalis fronted, frontal < frontalia or frontale frontlet < frons, frontis forehead, brow (ref. distinctive, contrastingly coloured forehead patch, usually black or red).
● ex “Faucon Huppé” of Levaillant 1798, pl. 28 (syn. Crinifer piscator).
● Front Range, Rocky Mts., Colorado, USA (syn. Otus flammeolus).
● ex “Perruche Ara à Bandeau Rouge” of Levaillant 1801 (Pyrrhura).
Speckle-fronted Weaver (emini)
SCI Name: Sporopipes frontalis emini
emini
Mehmet Emin Bey, later Emin Pasha, the adopted name of Dr Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer (1840-1892) German administrator in the Ottoman service, Pasha of Equatorial Province, Egyptian Sudan 1878-1889, physician, naturalist, collector, murdered by Arab slave-traders (subsp. Agapornis swindernianus, subsp. Argya rubiginosa, syn. Aviceda cuculoides verreauxi, subsp. Cecropis daurica, subsp. Cisticola aberrans, syn. Cisticola chiniana humilis, syn. Cisticola woosnami, syn. Coturnix adansonii, subsp. Criniger calurus, syn. Glareola nuchalis, subsp. Lamprotornis chalcurus, subsp. Ploceus baglafecht, syn. Prodotiscus insignis, syn. Pseudonigrita arnaudi dorsalis, syn. Pterocles exustus, syn. Pternistis icterorhynchus, syn. Ptilopachus petrosus, subsp. Pytilia phoenicoptera, subsp. Rhinopomastus aterrimus, subsp. Rhinoptilus cinctus, subsp. Salpornis salvadori, subsp. Sporopipes frontalis, subsp. Tauraco schuettii, subsp. Tchagra australis, subsp. Terpsiphone rufiventer, Trachyphonus, subsp. Turdoides jardineii).
● See: eminibey
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)