Nicaraguan Seed-Finch

Nicaraguan Seed-Finch / Sporophila nuttingi

Nicaraguan Seed-Finch

Here the details of the Nicaraguan Seed-Finch named bird below:

SCI Name:  Sporophila nuttingi
Protonym:  Oryzoborus nuttingi Proc.U.S.Natl.Mus. 6 p.401,note
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  nisfin1
Type Locality:  Los Sabalos, Nicaragua.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1884
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.

nuttingi
Prof. Charles Cleveland Nutting (1858-1927) US marine biologist, ornithologist, collector (subsp. Leptotila verreauxi, Myiarchus, Sporophila).