Black-capped Social-Weaver / Pseudonigrita cabanisi
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Black-capped Social-Weaver
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Protonym: Nigrita cabanisi J.Orn. 32 p.54
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Ploceidae / Pseudonigrita
Taxonomy Code: bcswea1
Type Locality: plains by Pare Mts., [Tanganyika Territory].
Author: Fischer & Reichenow
Publish Year: 1884
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PSEUDONIGRITA
(Ploceidae; Ϯ Grey-capped Social Weaver P. arnaudi) Gr. ψευδος pseudos false; genus Nigrita Strickland, 1843, negrofinch. "Herr Reichenow spricht über einige afrikanische Webervögel und stellt folgende neuen Gattungen und Untergattungen auf: Pseudonigrita für Nigrita arnaudi B., Phormoplectes als subgenus der Gattung Ploceus für P. insignis (Sharpe), Hypermegethes ebenso für P. grandis (G. G. Gr.)." (Reichenow 1903); "Pseudonigrita Reichenow, 1903, Journal für Ornithologie, 51, p. 149. Type, by monotypy, Nigrita arnaudi Bonaparte." (mihi).
Synon. Somalita, Whitellus.
cabanidis / cabanisi
Jean Louis Cabanis (1816-1906) German ornithologist, founding editor of Journal für Ornithologie 1853 (Basileuterus, subsp. Colibri thalassinus, subsp. Cnemotriccus fuscatus, subsp. Dendrocopos major, Emberiza, Knipolegus, Lanius, subsp. Lonchura punctulata (ex Oxycerca jagori Cabanis, 1872), Melozone, Microspingus, Phyllastrephus, subsp. Piaya cayana, Pseudonigrita, subsp. Rhinopomastus minor, Synallaxis, subsp. Syndactyla rufosuperciliata, Tangara (ex Calliste sclateri Cabanis, 1866), subsp. Tauraco livingstonii) (see cabanisii).
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)
