Bay-chested warbling finch | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thraupidae |
Genus: | Castanozoster Burns, Unitt & Mason, 2016 |
Species: | C. thoracicus |
Binomial name | |
Castanozoster thoracicus (Nordmann, 1835) | |
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The bay-chested warbling finch (Castanozoster thoracicus) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is endemic to southeastern Brazil.
Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
The bay-chested warbling finch was formally described in 1835 by the Finnish naturalist Alexander von Nordmann from a specimen collected in Brazil. He coined the binomial name Fringilla thoracica. [2] This species was traditionally placed in the genus Poospiza . [3] A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the genus was polyphyletic. [4] In the subsequent reorganisation the bay-chested warbling finch was moved to its own newly erected genus Castanozoster. The name combines the Ancient Greek καστανό meaning "chestnut" with ζωστήρ meaning "belt". [5] [6] The bay-chested warbling finch is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. [6]