Ruddy-breasted seedeater explained

The ruddy-breasted seedeater (Sporophila minuta) is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and heavily degraded former forest.

Taxonomy

The ruddy-breasted seedeater was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Loxia minuta.^[1] The specific epithet is from Latin minutus meaning "little" or "small".^[2] The type locality is Suriname.^[3] The ruddy-breasted seedeater is now placed in the genus Sporophila that was introduced by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1844.^{[4] [5]}

Three subspecies are recognised:^[5]

• S. m. parva (Lawrence, 1883) – southwest Mexico to Nicaragua
• S. m. centralis Bangs & Penard, TE, 1918 – southwest Costa Rica and south Panama
• S. m. minuta (Linnaeus, 1758) – Trinidad, Tobago and north South America

External links

• de Schauensee . Rodolphe Meyer . Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee . 1952 . A review of the genus Sporophila . Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . 104 . 175–181 . 4064459 . none .

Notes and References

1. Book: Linnaeus, Carl . Carl Linnaeus . 1758 . Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis . 1 . 10th . 176 . Laurentii Salvii . Holmiae (Stockholm) . Latin .
2. Book: Jobling, James A. . 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm . London . 978-1-4081-2501-4 . 256 .
3. Book: Paynter . Raymond A. Jr . 1970 . Check-List of Birds of the World . 13 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 145 .
4. Cabanis . Jean . Jean Cabanis . 1844 . Avium conspectus quae in Republica Peruana reperiuntur et pleraeqiio observatae vel collectae sunt in itinere a Dr. J.J. de Tschudi . Latin . Archiv für Naturgeschichte . 10 . 262–317 [291] .
5. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . Rasmussen . Pamela . Pamela Rasmussen . July 2020 . Tanagers and allies . IOC World Bird List Version 10.2 . International Ornithologists' Union . 28 November 2020 .