Chinese Beautiful Rosefinch

SCI Name:  Carpodacus davidianus
Protonym:  Carpodacus davidianus Nouv.Arch.Mus.Hist.Nat. Tome I, Bulletin N° 1 p. 18-19, pl. II, fig. 2, 3
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Carpodacus
Taxonomy Code:  chbros1
Type Locality:  Mongolia.
Author:  Milne-Edwards, A
Publish Year:  1865
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CARPODACUS
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Pallas's Rosefinch C. roseus) Gr. καρπος karpos  fruit; δακος dakos  biter  < δακνω daknō  to bite; "6. Pyrrhula rosea, longicauda, erythrina.   ...   6. Karminfink. Carpodacus *).   E[ntwickelung]. Wie bei Coccothraustes, Chloreus und Pyrrhula.   Ch[arakter]. Hänflinge mit dickem, gewölbtem Schnabel.   L[ebensart]. Sie leben nur von Beeren und Samereien, und haben wenig natürlichen Gesang.   ...   *) Von καρπος, Frucht und δακνω, beißen." (Kaup 1829); "Carpodacus Kaup, 1829, Skizz. Entw. Nat. Syst., 1, p. 161. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1842, List Genera Birds, ed. 2, appen., p. 11), Fringilla rosea Pallas." (Paynter in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 267).   
Var. Carpodagus, Cardopagus.   
Synon. Chaunoproctus, Erythrina, Erythrothorax, Haematospiza, Kozlowia, Papa, Phoenicospiza, Propasser, Propyrrhula, Pyrrhospiza, Pyrrhulinota, Rubicilla, Uragus.

davidi / davidiana / davidianus / davidii
● Abbé Père Jean Pierre Armand David (1826-1900) French missionary to China 1858-1874, naturalist (subsp. Alcippe morrisonia (ex Alcippe cinerea David, 1871), syn. Anser caerulescens, syn. Calliope pectardens, subsp. Carpodacus pulcherrimus, subsp. Cyanoderma ruficeps, syn. Cygnus cygnus, Garrulax, subsp. Horornis fortipes, Locustella, Neosuthora, Niltava, syn. Phylloscopus armandii, syn. Phylloscopus subaffinis, Poecile, syn. Pucrasia macrolopha xanthospila, Pyrgilauda, subsp. Strix uralensis, syn. Turdus obscurus).
● "Cette sous-espèce est dédiée à Monsieur le Professeur Louis David." (Mourer-Chauviré 1975) (subsp. Bubo bubo).
● Louis Henri André David-Beaulieu (1896-1969) French colonial adminstrator in Indochina, naturalist (Arborophila, subsp. Turnix sylvaticus).
● Pierre-Jean David known as David d’Angers (1788-1856) French sculptor (syn. Phaethornis ruber).
● Dr William David Kerr MacGillivray (1867-1933) Australian physician, naturalist, oologist (syn. Rhipidura rufiventris isura).
● Flight-Lt. Dr David Lakin Harrison (1926-2015) RAF physician, zoologist, taxonomist, palaeontologist (syn. Sitta europaea persica).