Tawny-bellied Seedeater / Sporophila hypoxantha

Tawny-bellied Seedeater / Sporophila hypoxantha

Tawny-bellied Seedeater

SCI Name:  Sporophila hypoxantha
Protonym:  Sporophila hypoxantha Mus.Hein. 1(1850) p.150
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  tabsee1
Type Locality:  Montevideo [= Uruguay] .
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Publish Year:  1851
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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.

hypoxantha
Gr. ὑπο hupo  beneath; ξανθος xanthos  yellow (cf. ὑποξανθος hupoxanthos  yellowish, lightish-brown).
● ex “Pico grueso pardo y canela” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 122, and “Fringilla hypoxantha” of Lichtenstein MS (Sporophila).