Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Afrikaans | Gewone Mossie |
Catalan | pardal del Cap |
Dutch | Kaapse Mus |
English | Cape Sparrow |
English (United States) | Cape Sparrow |
French | Moineau mélanure |
French (France) | Moineau mélanure |
German | Kapsperling |
Icelandic | Mánaspör |
Japanese | ホオグロスズメ |
Norwegian | boerspurv |
Polish | wróbel czarnogłowy |
Portuguese (Angola) | Pardal do Cabo |
Russian | Капский воробей |
Serbian | Južnoafrički vrabac |
Slovak | vrabec čiernohlavý |
Spanish | Gorrión de El Cabo |
Spanish (Spain) | Gorrión de El Cabo |
Swedish | boersparv |
Turkish | Kap Serçesi |
Ukrainian | Горобець чорноголовий |
Passer melanurus (Müller, 1776)
PROTONYM:
Loxia melanura
Müller, 1776. Des Ritters Carl von Linné ... vollständigen Natursystems Supplements- und Register-Band über alle sechs Theile oder Classen des Thierreichs, p.153.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Cape of Good Hope ; restricted to Cape Town by Macdonald (1957, Contr. Orn. W. South Africa, p. 157).
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- PASSER
- passer
- melanurum / melanurus
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Cape Sparrow Passer melanurus Scientific name definitions
Denis Summers-Smith
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated February 19, 2013
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated February 19, 2013
Revision History
Birds of the World
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Version 1.0
- March 4, 2020
- Cape Sparrow Passer melanurus
Authors
Denis Summers-Smith
Recommended Citation
Summers-Smith, D. (2020). Cape Sparrow (Passer melanurus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.capspa1.01
Handbook of the Birds of the World
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Last Published Version
- February 19, 2013
- Cape Sparrow Passer melanurus
Authors
Denis Summers-Smith
Recommended Citation
Summers-Smith, D. (2013). Cape Sparrow (Passer melanurus). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.