Thick-billed seedeater

Thick-billed seedeater
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Fringillidae
Subfamily:	Carduelinae
Genus:	Crithagra
Species:	C. burtoni
Binomial name
Crithagra burtoni (G. R. Gray, 1862)
Synonyms
Serinus burtoni

The thick-billed seedeater (Crithagra burtoni) is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It is native to the Western High Plateau and Bioko, the Albertine rift montane forests and the East African montane forests

The thick-billed seedeater was formerly placed in the genus Serinus but phylogenetic analysis using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences found that the genus was polyphyletic. ^[2] The genus was therefore split and a number of species including the thick-billed seedeater were moved to the resurrected genus Crithagra . ^{[3] [4]}

References

1. BirdLife International (2016). "Crithagra burtoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T22720267A94662953. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22720267A94662953.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. Zuccon, Dario; Prŷs-Jones, Robert; Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Ericson, Per G.P. (2012). "The phylogenetic relationships and generic limits of finches (Fringillidae)" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 62 (2): 581–596. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.10.002. PMID   22023825.
3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Finches, euphonias". World Bird List Version 5.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
4. Swainson, William (1827). "On several forms in ornithology not hitherto defined". Zoological Journal. 3: 348.