| Purple-throated euphonia | |
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| Male in Brazil | |
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| Female in Brazil | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Fringillidae |
| Subfamily: | Euphoniinae |
| Genus: | Euphonia |
| Species: | E. chlorotica |
| Binomial name | |
| Euphonia chlorotica (Linnaeus, 1766) | |
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| Synonyms | |
Tanagra chloroticaLinnaeus, 1766 | |
The purple-throated euphonia (Euphonia chlorotica) is a songbird species in the family Fringillidae. It was formerly placed in the Thraupidae.
It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
In 1760, the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the purple-throated euphonia in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana. He used the French name Le tangara noir et jaune de Cayenne and the Latin Tangara Cayanensis Nigrolutea. [2] Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. [3] In 1766, when naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. [3] One of these was the purple-throated euphonia. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Tanagra chlorotica and cited Brisson's work. [4] The specific name chlorotica is from the Ancient Greek khlōrotēs "greenness". [5] This is now one of 25 Neotropical species placed in the genus Euphonia that was introduced by the French zoologist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1806. [6]
Five subspecies are recognised: [7]
- E. c. cynophora (Oberholser, 1918) – east Colombia, south Venezuela and north Brazil
- E. c. chlorotica (Linnaeus, 1766) – the Guianas and northeast, east Brazil
- E. c. amazonica Parkes, 1969 – central north and central Brazil
- E. c. taczanowskii Sclater, PL, 1886 – Peru and north Bolivia
- E. c. serrirostris d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837 – southeast Bolivia and southeast Brazil to central north Argentina
