Tropeiro Seedeater

Tropeiro Seedeater / Sporophila beltoni

Tropeiro Seedeater

Here the details of the Tropeiro Seedeater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Sporophila beltoni
Protonym:  Sporophila beltoni Auk 130 (4) 791–803
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  trosee1
Type Locality:  
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Publish Year:  2013
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.

beltoni
Dr William Henry Belton (1914-2009) US diplomat 1938-1970, ornithologist, conservationist, pioneer sound-recordist in Brazil (Sporophila).