Lemon-breasted Seedeater / Crithagra citrinipectus
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Lemon-breasted Seedeater
SCI Name:
Protonym: Serinus citrinipectus DurbanMus.Novit. 6 p.62
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Crithagra
Taxonomy Code: lebsee1
Type Locality: near Panda, Inhambane, Sul do Save, southern Portuguese East Africa.
Author: Clancey & Lawson
Publish Year: 1960
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CRITHAGRA
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Brimstone Canary C. sulphurata) Gr. κριθη krithē barley; αγρα agra hunting < αγρεω agreō to hunt; "CRITHAGRA. Rostrum breve, sub-conicum, crassum, integrum; culmine arcuato; tomio curvato. Alæ subelongatæ; remigibus 1ma, 2da, 3tia, et 4ta æqualibus, longissimis. Cauda mediocris, subfurcata. ... Types. Lox. sulphurata, flaviventris. Lath. Africa only?" (Swainson 1827); "Crithagra Swainson, 1827, Zool. Journ., 3, p. 348. Type, by subsequent designation (Sharpe, 1888, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 12, p. 348), Loxia sulphurata Linnaeus." (Rand in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 208).
Var. Chrithagra, Grithagra.
Synon. Bolbospiza, Buserinus, Dendrospiza, Lormarinsia, Menellia, Microserinus, Neospiza, Ochrospiza, Phaeospiza, Poliospiza, Psammospiza, Pseudochloroptila, Serinops, Spodiospina, Tephrospiza.
citrinipectus
Med. L. citrinus yellow, citrine < L. citrus citron, citrus; L. pectus, pectoris breast.
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)
