Gran Canaria Blue Chaffinch
Gran Canaria Blue Chaffinch
Here the details of the Gran Canaria Blue Chaffinch named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Fringilla teydea polatzeki Orn.Monatsb. 13 p. 164
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Fringilla
Taxonomy Code: blucha3
Type Locality: Gran Canaria.
Author: Hartert, E
Publish Year: 1905
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
FRINGILLA
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Common Chaffinch F. coelebs) L. fringilla (also frigilia, fringuilla, fringillus, fringuillus, frenguillus, fringuellus, fringuillo) finch, subsequently associated with the Chaffinch; "98. FRINGILLA. Rostrum conicum, rectum, acutum." (Linnaeus 1758); "Fringilla Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 179. Type, by tautonymy, "Fringilla" = Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus." (Mayr in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 203). Linnaeus's Fringilla comprised thirty-one species (F. oryzivora, F. cœlebs, F. Montifringilla, F. lulensis, F. lapponica, F. sylvatica, F. melancholica, F. erythrophthalma, F. Carduelis, F. Melba, F. Amandava, F. Gyrola, F. rubra, F. tristis, F. Zena, F. brasiliana, F. butyracea, F. Canaria, F. Spinus, F. flammea, F. flavirostris, F. cannabina, F. Linaria, F. angolensis, F. violacea, F. Schœniclus, F. domestica, F. montana, F. chinensis, F. hyemalis, F. Zena). Modern research suggests that some of the southern and insular subspecies of the Common Chaffinch may be entitled to specific rank, e.g. canariensis, spodiogenys, moreletti.
Var. Frangilla, Fringuilla, Fringille, Frlngilla.
Synon. Coelebs, Hortulanus, Spermologa, Spiza, Struthus.
polatzeki
Capt. Johann Polatzek (1839-1927) Austrian ornithologist, collector in the Canary Is. 1902-1905, and Balearic Is. 1910 (subsp. Alaudala rufescens, Fringilla, syn. Galerida theklae).
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)