The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Pyrrhia

(Fringillidae; syn. Pyrrhula Eurasian Bullfinch P. pyrrhula) Gr. πυρρος purrhos flame-coloured, red  < πυρ pur, πυρος puros  fire; "GÉNERO PYRRHIA (1) NOM. NOV.  (= Pyrrhula PALL. NOM. SPEC.)  ... Pyrrhia pyrrhula L.  Camachuelo.  ... (1) De πυῥῥος, rojo" (Navás 1907); "Pyrrhia Navás, 1907, Ornith. de Aragón, p. 16.  New name for Pyrrhula Pallas, i.e. Brisson, 1760, the tautonymous combination Pyrrhula pyrrhula considered unacceptable." (JAJ 2020).


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