Sturnus Unicolor Bird

Sturnus Unicolor Bird

Sturnus Unicolor Bird

English Name:  Spotless Starling
Latin Name:  Sturnus unicolor
Protonym:  Sturnus unicolor Man.Orn.[Temminck].ed.2 ed.2, 1 p.133
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sturnidae / Sturnus
Taxonomy Code:  sposta1
Type Locality:  Sardinia.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1820
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

STURNUS
(Sturnidae; Ϯ Common Starling S. vulgaris) L. sturnus  starling; "94. STURNUS.  Rostrum subulatum, angulato-depressum, obtusiusculum: Mandibula superiore integerrima, marginibus patentiusculis.  Nares supra marginatæ.  Lingua emarginata, acuta." (Linnaeus 1758); "Sturnus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 167. Type, by tautonymy, "Sturnus" = Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus." (Amadon in Peters1962, XV, 104). Linnaeus's Sturnus comprised four species (S. vulgaris, S. Luteolus, S. Contra, S. Cinclus). The Common Starling is a widespread commensal of man, native from Britain to Lake Baikal and Kashmir, but introduced throughout much of the globe.
Var. Sturmus.
Synon. Psar, Quiscalis.

unicolor
L. unicolor, unicoloris  plain, uniform, of one colour  < uni-  single-  < unus  one; color, coloris  colour.
● ex “Tanagra unicolor” of Lichtenstein MS (Haplospiza).
● ex “Perroquet Lori unicolore” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (unident.).