Temminck’s Seedeater / Sporophila falcirostris

Temminck\'s Seedeater / Sporophila falcirostris

Temminck's Seedeater

SCI Name:  Sporophila falcirostris
Protonym:  Pyrrhula falcirostris Pl.Col. livr.2 pl.11 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  temsee1
Type Locality:  Brazil.
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Publish Year:  1820
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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.

falcirostre / falcirostris
L. falx, falcis  sickle; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.