Drab Seedeater / Sporophila simplex

Drab Seedeater / Sporophila simplex

Drab Seedeater

SCI Name:  Sporophila simplex
Protonym:  Spermophila simplex Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.132
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  drasee1
Type Locality:  Lima, Peru.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1874
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.

simplex
L. simplex, simplicis  simple, plain.
● ex “Simple Tern” of Latham 1785 (Phaetusa ☼).