Black-billed Seed-Finch / Sporophila atrirostris

Black-billed Seed-Finch / Sporophila atrirostris

Black-billed Seed-Finch

SCI Name:  Sporophila atrirostris
Protonym:  Oryzoborus atrirostris Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.136
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  bbsfin1
Type Locality:  Moyobamba, San Martin, Peru.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1878
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.

atrirostris
L. ater  black; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.

SUBSPECIES

Black-billed Seed-Finch (atrirostris)
SCI Name: Sporophila atrirostris atrirostris
atrirostris
L. ater  black; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.

Black-billed Seed-Finch (gigantirostris)
SCI Name: Sporophila atrirostris gigantirostris
gigantirostris
L. giganteus  gigantic  < gigas, gigantis  giant  < Gr. γιγας gigas, γιγαντος gigantos  giant; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.