Black-throated euphonia

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Black-throated euphonia
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Illustration by Joseph Smit, 1886
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Subfamily: Euphoniinae
Genus: Euphonia
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Synonyms
  • Euphonia catasticaHellmayr, 1936 [1]
  • Euphonia vittata Sclater, 1861

The black-throated euphonia is a bird in the Fringillidae, or finch family. It is known only by a single specimen in the British Natural History Museum with the type locality given as Rio de Janeiro, and was originally described as Euphonia vittata by Philip Sclater in 1861. It is now thought to be an intrageneric hybrid between the chestnut-bellied euphonia (Euphonia pectoralis) and the orange-bellied euphonia (Euphonia xanthogaster). [2]

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Notes

  1. SACC
  2. McCarthy (2006).

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