Yellow-rumped seedeater

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Yellow-rumped seedeater
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Subfamily: Carduelinae
Genus: Crithagra
Species:
C. xanthopygia
Binomial name
Crithagra xanthopygia
(Rüppell, 1840)
Synonyms

Serinus xanthopygius

The yellow-rumped seedeater, yellow-rumped serin or Abyssinian yellow-rumped seedeater (Crithagra xanthopygia) is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It is found in Eritrea, Kenya and Ethiopia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

The yellow-rumped 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-rumped seedeater were moved to the resurrected genus Crithagra . [3] [4]

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Crithagra xanthopygia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T22720147A94659268. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22720147A94659268.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.