Mourning sierra finch

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Mourning sierra finch
Mourning Sierra Finch (Rhopospina fruticeti), Colca Canyon, Peru.jpg
Male mourning sierra finch
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Female mourning sierra finch
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Rhopospina
Cabanis, 1851
Species:
R. fruticeti
Binomial name
Rhopospina fruticeti
(Kittlitz, 1833)
Rhopospina fruticeti map.svg
Synonyms

Fringilla fruticeti (protonym)
Phrygilus fruticeti

The mourning sierra finch (Rhopospina fruticeti) is a species of South American bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.

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It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. It is a vagrant to the Falkland Islands and Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.

Taxonomy

The mourning sierra finch was formally described and illustrated in 1883 by the German naturalist Heinrich von Kittlitz under the binomial name Fringilla fruticeti. [2] This species was formerly included in the genus Phrygilus . [3] A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Phrygilus was polyphyletic, [4] and in the subsequent rearrangement, the mourning sierra finch was moved to the resurrected genus Rhopospina that had been introduced in 1851 by Jean Cabanis. [5] [6] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek rhōps meaning "bush" with spina meaning "finch". The specific epithet is from the Latin fruticetum meaning "thicket". [7]

Three subspecies are recognised: [6]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2018). "Rhopospina fruticeti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018 e.T22723080A132160426. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22723080A132160426.en . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Kittlitz, Heinrich von (1833). Kupfertafeln zur Naturgeschichte der Vögel (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Johann David Sauerländer. pp. 18–19, Plate 23 fig. 1.
  3. ↑ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 105.
  4. ↑ Burns, K.J.; Shultz, A.J.; Title, P.O.; Mason, N.A.; Barker, F.K.; Klicka, J.; Lanyon, S.M.; Lovette, I.J. (2014). "Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds" . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 75: 41–77. Bibcode:2014MolPE..75...41B. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006. PMID   24583021.
  5. ↑ Cabanis, Jean (1850–1851). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German and Latin). Vol. 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 135.
  6. 1 2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  7. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 165, 335. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.


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