Red-eared Firetail

SCI Name:  Stagonopleura oculata
Protonym:  Fringilla oculata Voy.AstrolabeZool. 1 p.211
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Estrildidae / Stagonopleura
Taxonomy Code:  reefir1
Type Locality:  King George''s Sound, Western AustraHa.
Author:  Quoy & Gaimard
Publish Year:  1830
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

STAGONOPLEURA
(Estrildidae; Ϯ Diamond Firetail S. guttata) Gr. σταγων stagōn, σταγονος stagonos  spot; πλευρα pleura  side, flank; Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXV, labelled Passerinae: Frigillinae genuinae, illustrates a variety of finches, buntings, and sparrows, but does not highlight the spotted flanks of this waxbill. "Loxia fusca, pectore nigro, rostro uropygioque rubris, lateribus corporis nigris albo maculatis" (Shaw 1796); "Gen. STAGONOPLEURA Reichb. 1850. **) Tropfen-Amadine.  Sporothlastes Bonap. nec Cab.  ...  **) Wir glauben diese, leider ohne Angabe eines Typus aufgestellte, Reichenbachsche Gattung richtiger zu deuten als Bonaparte (welcher obenein Steganopleura ! schreibt) wenn wir die Loxia guttata Shaw als Typus annehmen." (Cabanis 1853); "XI. Stagonopleura RCHB. *) Av. Syst. nat. t. LXXV  ... Tropfenfink.  ... St. guttata (Fring. — SHAW Mus. Leverian. iv.) RCHB.   ...  *) ἡ σταγων, ονος, der Tropfen,  ἡ πλευρα, ας, die Seite." (Reichenbach 1862); "Stagonopleura Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 75. Type, by subsequent designation (Cabanis, 1851 [= 1853], Mus. Heineanum, 1, p. 172), Loxia guttata Shaw." (Mayr in Peters 1968, XIV, 353) (see Steganopleura).
Synon. Tavistocka, Zonaeginthus.

oculata
L. oculatus  having eyes (i.e. dotted with white spots), conspicuous  < oculus  eye.
● ex “Sénégali oculé” of Quoy & Gaimard 1830 (Stagonopleura).