Caqueta Seedeater

Caqueta Seedeater / Sporophila murallae

Caqueta Seedeater

Here the details of the Caqueta Seedeater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Sporophila murallae
Protonym:  Sporophila aurita murallae Bull.Am.Mus.Nat.Hist. 34 p.649
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  caqsee1
Type Locality:  La Muralla [= Morelia] , 600 ft., Caqueta, Colombia.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1915
IUCN Status:  

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.

murallae
La Muralla (= La Murelia), Caquetá, Colombia.