Himalayan White-browed Rosefinch

SCI Name:  Carpodacus thura
Protonym:  Carpodacus thura Monogr.Loxiens p.21 pl.23
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Carpodacus
Taxonomy Code:  whbros1
Type Locality:  Nepal.
Author:  Bonaparte & Schlegel
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

thura
Thura Nilsson (fl. 1850) daughter of Swedish zoologist Sven Nilsson; "4. C. thura, Bp.  ...  Thurae, Ornithophilae suavissimae filiae amicissimi Nilssoni, quam qui maximi Linnaei ex eadem stirpe nati vestigia revera prementis!" (Bonaparte 1850) (Carpodacus).

SUBSPECIES

Himalayan White-browed Rosefinch (blythi)
SCI Name: Carpodacus thura blythi
blythi / blythii
Edward Blyth (1810-1873) English zoologist, Curator of Mus. of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta 1841-1862, collector (syn. Alcippe poioicephala karenni, subsp. Carpodacus thura, subsp. Cyornis rufigastra, syn. Ficedula westermanni collini, syn. Gorsachius melanolophus, syn. Micropternus brachyurus, Onychognathus, syn. Phoeniconaias minor, syn. Phoeniculus somaliensis, subsp. Prinia inornata, subsp. Psittaculirostris desmarestii, subsp. Sturnia malabarica, subsp. Sylvia curruca, Tragopan, subsp. Trochalopteron affine).

Himalayan White-browed Rosefinch (thura)
SCI Name: Carpodacus thura thura
thura
Thura Nilsson (fl. 1850) daughter of Swedish zoologist Sven Nilsson; "4. C. thura, Bp.  ...  Thurae, Ornithophilae suavissimae filiae amicissimi Nilssoni, quam qui maximi Linnaei ex eadem stirpe nati vestigia revera prementis!" (Bonaparte 1850) (Carpodacus).