Pink-billed Parrotfinch
Pink-billed Parrotfinch
Here the details of the Pink-billed Parrotfinch named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Amblynura kleinschmidti Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.440 pl.29
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Estrildidae / Erythrura
Taxonomy Code: pibpar1
Type Locality: Viti Levu.
Author: Finsch
Publish Year: 1878
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
ERYTHRURA
(Estrildidae; † Pin-tailed Parrotfinch E. prasina) Gr. ερυθρος eruthros red; ουρα oura tail; excepting E. hyperythra and E. kleinschmidti, all male parrotfinches have bright red rumps and tails; "Erythura, Sw. Bill thick, lengthened, resembling that of Euplectes. Tail very long, acuminated. E. viridis. Pl. Col. 96." (Swainson 1837); "Erythrura Swainson, 1837, Class. Birds, 2, p. 280 (originally misspelled Erythura, but universally emended). Type, by monotypy, Erythrura viridis Temminck, 1835, Pl. Col., livr. 96 = Loxia prasina Sparrman." (Mayr in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 362).
Var. Erythura (original spelling).
Synon. Acalanthe, Acmura, Amblynura, Chloromunia, Chlorura, Erythrina, Lobiospiza, Lobospingus, Poedela, Reichenowia, Rhamphostruthus, Trichroa.
erythrura / erythruros / erythrurus
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros red; -ουρος -ouros -tailed < ουρα oura tail.
kleinschmidti
● Dr Konrad Ernst Adolf Otto Kleinschmidt (1870-1954) German pastor, theologian, taxidermist, ornithologist who introduced the formenkreis concept (syn. Accipiter gentilis arrigonii, subsp. Anthus petrosus, syn. Cuculus canorus, syn. Emberiza calandra, syn. Falco peregrinus japonensis, subsp. Galerida cristata, syn. Garrulus glandarius fasciatus, syn. Passer griseus, subsp. Poecile montanus, syn. Saxicola maurus stejnegeri, syn. Sitta europaea amurensis, syn. Tyto alba).
● Theodor Kleinschmidt (1834-1881) German trader, explorer, collector in the Pacific 1875-1881 (Erythrura, syn. Myzomela cruentata coccinea, subsp. Petroica pusilla) (see klinesmithi).
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)