Black-bellied Seedeater

Black-bellied Seedeater / Sporophila melanogaster

Black-bellied Seedeater

Here the details of the Black-bellied Seedeater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Sporophila melanogaster
Protonym:  Spermophila melanogaster Orn.Brasil. Abth.3 p.225,332
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  blbsee2
Type Locality:  Itarare and Resacca (Borda do Mato) Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Publish Year:  1870
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.

melanogaster / melanogastra / melanogastris / melanogastrus
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; γαστηρ gastēr, γαστρος gastros  belly.
● ex “Black-bellied Grosbeak” of Latham 1783 (syn. Euplectes afer).