Cardinalis

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Cardinalis
Cardinalis sinuatus.jpg
Male pyrrhuloxia
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Female pyrrhuloxia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cardinalidae
Genus: Cardinalis
Bonaparte, 1838
Type species
Cardinalis virginianus = Loxia cardinalis
Bonaparte, 1838

Cardinalis is a genus of birds in the family Cardinalidae. [1] [2] There are three species ranging across North America to northern South America.

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Description

They are birds between 19 and 22 cm in length. Its most distinctive characteristics are the presence of a conspicuous crest and a thick and strong conical bill. There is sexual dimorphism; [3] males have a greater amount of red in their plumage, and females have only some tints, with a predominance of gray. Its striking red plumage is likened to a Catholic senior priest's garments, and their genus is named after the Latin word for them, cardinalis. [4] Immature individuals are similar to females.

Species

Genus Cardinalis Bonaparte, 1838 – three species
Common nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Northern cardinal

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Male
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Female

Cardinalis cardinalis
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Nineteen subspecies [5]
  • C. c. cardinalis(Linnaeus, 1758)
  • C. c. affinisNelson, 1899
  • C. c. canicaudusChapman, 1891
  • C. c. carneus(Lesson, 1842)
  • C. c. clintoni(Banks, 1963)
  • C. c. coccineusRidgway, 1873
  • C. c. flammigerJ.L. Peters, 1913
  • C. c. floridanusRidgway, 1896
  • C. c. igneusS.F. Baird, 1860
  • C. c. littoralisNelson, 1897
  • C. c. magnirostrisBangs, 1903
  • C. c. mariaeNelson, 1898
  • C. c. phillipsiParkes, 1997
  • C. c. saturatusRidgway, 1885
  • C. c. seftoni(Huey, 1940)
  • C. c. sinaloensisNelson, 1899
  • C. c. superbusRidgway, 1885
  • C. c. townsendi(van Rossem, 1932)
  • C. c. yucatanicusRidgway, 1887
United States from Maine to Texas and in Canada in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Its range extends west to the U.S.–Mexico border and south through Mexico to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, northern Guatemala, and northern Belize
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Pyrrhuloxia (a.k.a. Desert cardinal)

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Male
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Female

Cardinalis sinuatus
Bonaparte, 1838
U.S. states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas and woodland edges in Mexico
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Vermilion cardinal

Cardinalis phoenicius Cardenal guajiro Vermilion Cardinal (male) (8619284898).jpg
Male
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Female

Cardinalis phoeniceus
Bonaparte, 1838
Colombia and Venezuela
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Phylogeny

Cladogram based on analysis by Tilston Smith and Klicka published in 2013. [6]

Cardinalis

References

  1. "Taxonomy browser (Cardinalis)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
  2. "Definition of CARDINALIS". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
  3. "Rare half-male, half-female cardinal spotted in Pennsylvania". Animals. 2019-01-31. Archived from the original on February 22, 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
  4. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London, England: Christopher Helm. p. 91. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Cardinals, grosbeaks and (tanager) allies". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  6. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Multilocus-species-tree-and-mtDNA-tree-for-Cardinalis-cardinalis-and-allies-Species-tree_fig2_235778391