Pipilo

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Pipilo
Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus).jpg
Spotted towhee (Pipilo maculatus)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Passerellidae
Genus: Pipilo
Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Fringilla erythrophthalma [1]
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

4, see text

Pipilo is a genus of birds in the American sparrow family Passerellidae. It is one of two genera containing birds with the common name towhee.

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Taxonomy

The genus Pipilo was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the eastern towhee as the type species. [2] [3] The name Pipilo is Neo-Latin for "bunting" from pipilare "to chirp". [4] Within the New World sparrow family Passerellidae, the genus Pipilo is sister to the larger genus Atlapetes . [5]

Species

The genus contains five species: [6]

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Green-tailed Towhee.jpg Pipilo chlorurus Green-tailed towhee interior Western United States, with a winter range in Mexico and the southern edge of the Southwestern United States
Collared Towhee - Oaxaca, Mexico.jpg Pipilo ocai Collared towhee Mexico
Pipilo erythrophthalmus -Quabbin Reservoir, Massachusetts, USA -male-8.jpg Pipilo erythrophthalmus Eastern towhee eastern North America
SpottedTowhee-24JAN2017.jpg Pipilo maculatus Spotted towhee across western North America
Pipilo naufragus Bermuda towhee Bermuda; extinct

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References

  1. "Passerellidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 32.
  3. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 168.
  4. Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
  5. Bryson, R.W.; Faircloth, B.C.; Tsai, W.L.E.; McCormack, J.E.; Klicka, J. (2016). "Target enrichment of thousands of ultraconserved elements sheds new light on early relationships within New World sparrows (Aves: Passerellidae)". The Auk. 133 (3): 451–458. doi: 10.1642/AUK-16-26.1 .
  6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "New World Sparrows, Bush Tanagers". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 12 October 2020.