Pale Rockfinch
Pale Rockfinch
Here the details of the Pale Rockfinch named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Petronia brachydactyla Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.513 ydP
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Passeridae / Carpospiza
Taxonomy Code: palroc1
Type Locality: 'Arabia, Abyssinia''; type from Kunfuda, western Arabia.
Author: Bonaparte
Publish Year: 1850
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CARPOSPIZA
(Passeridae; † Pale Sparrow C. brachydactyla) Portmanteau of genera Carpodacus Kaup, 1829, rosefinch, and Corospiza Bonaparte, 1850, sparrow; "CARPOSPIZA, de MULL. Rostrum robustum, pirrhulaceum, conico-elongatum; maxilla basi gibbosa; dente medio acuto, cauda brevis alas ultra parum producta. La forme du bec, qui offre des caractères si particuliers, a rendu nécessaire la création de ce nouveau genre. Le bec est très-fort et se rapproche le plus de ceux des genres Corospiza Bp. et Carpodacus Kaup; mais il s'en distingue éminemment par une dent placée au milieu de la mandibule supérieure et par une gibbosité au-dessus des narines. Carpospiza longipennis, de Mull. Pyrenestes lacteus, v. Müll. Naumannia, 1851, IV, p. 25." (von Müller 1854) (OD per Mark Brown); "Carpospiza Müller, 1854, Descr. Ois. Afr. [Beiträge zur Ornithologie Afrika's], 3, pl. 10. Type, by monotypy, C. longipennis Müller = Petronia brachydactyla Bonaparte." (Greenway in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 23); "Carpospiza brachydactyla (Pale Rockfinch), which has recently been shown not to be part of the sparrows but, instead, represents an early branch in the phylogeny of the Motacillidae family." (Fjeldså, Christidis & Ericson (eds.) 2020). Laurent Raty in litt. suggests that this bird may warrant familial separation.
brachydactyla / brachydactylus
Gr. βραχυδακτυλος brakhudaktulos short-toed < βραχυς brakhus short; δακτυλος daktulos toe.
● ex “Fringilla brachydactyla” of Hemprich MS (Carpospiza).
Brachydactyla
(Certhiidae; ?syn. Certhia Ϯ Brachydactyla temminckii) Gr. βραχυδακτυλος brakhudaktulos short-toed < βραχυς brakhus short; δακτυλος daktulos toe; "Brachydactyla Temminckii. Short-toe Temminck's" (J. Brooks 1828)
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)