Crithagra | |
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Male brimstone canary (Crithagra sulphurata sharpii) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Fringillidae |
Subfamily: | Carduelinae |
Genus: | Crithagra Swainson, 1827 |
Type species | |
Loxia sulphurata [1] Linnaeus, 1766 | |
Species | |
See text |
Crithagra is a genus of small passerine birds in the finch family (Fringillidae). They live in Africa and Arabia.
The species in this genus were formerly assigned to the genus Serinus , but phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences found that the genus was polyphyletic. [2] It was therefore split into two monophyletic genera. Eight species, including the European serin (Serinus serinus), were retained in Serinus, while the other species were assigned to the resurrected genus Crithagra. [3]
The genus was introduced in 1827 by the English ornithologist William John Swainson. [4] The type species was subsequently designated as the brimstone canary. [5] The name comes from the classical Greek krithē for "barley" and agra for "hunting". [6]
The genus contains 37 species: [3]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Príncipe seedeater | Crithagra rufobrunnea | São Tomé and Príncipe | |
São Tomé grosbeak | Crithagra concolor | São Tomé | |
African citril | Crithagra citrinelloides | Ethiopia, Eritrea to western Kenya. | |
Western citril | Crithagra frontalis | central Africa | |
Southern citril | Crithagra hyposticta | South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi. | |
Black-faced canary | Crithagra capistrata | Angola, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Zambia. | |
Papyrus canary | Crithagra koliensis | Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda | |
Forest canary | Crithagra scotops | Cameroon, Congo, and Kenya. | |
White-rumped seedeater | Crithagra leucopygia | Sudan | |
Black-throated canary | Crithagra atrogularis | Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. | |
Yellow-rumped seedeater | Crithagra xanthopygia | Eritrea, Kenya and Ethiopia. | |
Reichenow's seedeater | Crithagra reichenowi | eastern Africa | |
Arabian serin | Crithagra rothschildi | western Saudi Arabia and Yemen | |
Yellow-throated seedeater | Crithagra flavigula | Ethiopia. | |
Salvadori's seedeater | Crithagra xantholaema | Ethiopia. | |
Lemon-breasted canary | Crithagra citrinipectus | Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. | |
Yellow-fronted canary | Crithagra mozambica | Africa south of the Sahara Desert. | |
White-bellied canary | Crithagra dorsostriata | Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. | |
Ankober serin | Crithagra ankoberensis | Ethiopia | |
Yemen serin | Crithagra menachensis | Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. | |
Cape siskin | Crithagra totta | South Africa. | |
Drakensberg siskin | Crithagra symonsi | South Africa, | |
Northern grosbeak-canary | Crithagra donaldsoni | Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. | |
Southern grosbeak-canary | Crithagra buchanani | Kenya and Tanzania. | |
Yellow canary | Crithagra flaviventris | southern Africa | |
Brimstone canary | Crithagra sulphurata | central and southern Africa. | |
Stripe-breasted seedeater | Crithagra striatipectus [7] | Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya. | |
Reichard's seedeater | Crithagra reichardi | Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania | |
Streaky-headed seedeater | Crithagra gularis | southern Africa. | |
West African seedeater | Crithagra canicapilla | Guinea, Sierra Leone, southern Mali and northern Ivory Coast across to southern Niger and northern Cameroon | |
Black-eared seedeater | Crithagra mennelli | Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. | |
Brown-rumped seedeater | Crithagra tristriata | Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. | |
White-throated canary | Crithagra albogularis | Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa. | |
Thick-billed seedeater | Crithagra burtoni | Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. | |
Streaky seedeater | Crithagra striolata | Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. | |
Yellow-browed seedeater | Crithagra whytii | Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia. | |
Kipengere seedeater | Crithagra melanochroa | Tanzania | |
Protea canary | Crithagra leucoptera | South Africa. | |
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