Saltatricula

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Saltatricula
Saltatricula multicolor - Many-colored Chaco Finch.jpg
Many-colored Chaco finch (Saltatricula multicolor)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Saltatricula
Burmeister, 1861
Type species
Saltatricula multicolor
Burmeister, 1861
Species

2, see text

Saltatricula is a genus of South American seed-eating birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Taxonomy and species list

The genus Saltatricula was introduced in 1861 by the German naturalist Hermann Burmeister with the many-colored Chaco finch as the type species. [1] [2] The name is a Latin diminutive of the genus Saltator that had been introduced by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816. [3]

The black-throated saltator was formerly included in the genus Saltator. It was moved Saltatricula based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 that found that the black-throated saltator was genetically distinct from the other members of the genus Saltator but was instead closely related to the many-colored Chaco finch. [4] [5]

The genus contains two species. [5]

Genus Saltatricula Burmeister, 1861 – two species
Common nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Many-colored Chaco finch

Saltatricula multicolor - Many-colored Chaco Finch; Capivara, Santa Fe, Argentina.jpg

Saltatricula multicolor
(Burmeister, 1860)
Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay.
Saltatricula multicolor map.svg
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Black-throated saltator

Black-throated Saltator (Saltator atricollis) (29180452582).jpg

Saltatricula atricollis
(Vieillot, 1817)
Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay.
Saltator atricollis map.svg
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References

  1. Burmeister, Hermann (1861). Reise durch die La Plata-Staaten: mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die physische Beschaffenheit und den Culturzustand der Argentinischen Republik : Ausgeführt in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860 (in German). Vol. 2. Halle, Germany: H. W. Schmidt. p. 481.
  2. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 209.
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 346. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  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. 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 20 November 2020.