Yellow-browed seedeater

Yellow-browed 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. whytii
Binomial name
Crithagra whytii (Shelley, 1897)
Synonyms
Serinus whytii

The yellow-browed seedeater (Crithagra whytii) is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It is found in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia.

The yellow-browed 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 yellow-browed seedeater were moved to the resurrected genus Crithagra . ^{[3] [4]}

Since 2012 the IUCN has treated this taxon as a subspecies of Crithagra striolata . ^[1]

References

1. BirdLife International (2013). "Crithagra striolata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2013 e.T22731359A50443224. Retrieved 23 April 2020. (See "taxonomy in detail" section)
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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-09-26. Retrieved 2015-06-10.
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.