Carbonated Sierra-Finch

Carbonated Sierra-Finch / Porphyrospiza carbonaria

Carbonated Sierra-Finch

Here the details of the Carbonated Sierra-Finch named bird below:

SCI Name:  Porphyrospiza carbonaria
Protonym:  Emberiza carbonaria Mag.Zool. 7 cl.2 p.79
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  casfin1
Type Locality:  Patagonia!!
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Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

PORPHYROSPIZA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Blue Finch P. caerulescens) Gr. πορφυρα porphura  purple; σπιζα spiza  finch  < σπιζω spizō  to chirp; "GENUS XXI. PORPHYROSPIZA  GEN. NOV. III.   1. cyanella (Sparm.) ex Bras. int.  ...  III. PORPHYROSPIZA, gen. nov. p. 30  (πορφυρα, purpur, et σπιζα, fringilla).   A Cyanospiza, cujus coloribus gaudet, rostro graciliore, longiore, sicut in genere Coryphospingo formato, diversa, et huic generi magis approximanda.  Typus, P. CYANELLA, i.e. Cyanospiza cyanella, Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 227, ex Brasilia" (P. Sclater & Salvin 1873); "Porphyrospiza P. L. Sclater and Salvin, 1873, Nomen. Av. Neotrop., pp. 30, 155. Type, by original designation, Cyanospiza cyanella Pelzeln (not Emberiza cyanella Sparrman) = Tanagra caerulescens Wied." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 238).
Var. Porphyriospiza.

carbonaria / carbonarium
L. carbonarius  charcoal-burner (i.e. black, blackened)  < carbo, carbonis  charcoal.