Asemospiza | |
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Sooty grassquit (Asemospiza fuliginosa) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thraupidae |
Genus: |
Asemospiza Burns, Unitt & Mason, 2016 |
Type species | |
Fringilla fuliginosa
Wied, 1830
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Species | |
See text |
Asemospiza is a genus of South American birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.
These species were formerly placed in the genus Tiaris. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Tiaris was polyphyletic. [1] In the resulting reorganization to create monophyletic genera, these two species were assigned to a new genus Asemospiza with the sooty grassquit as the type species. [2] The name combines the Ancient Greek ἄσημος/asēmos meaning "without marks" with σπίζα/spiza meaning "finch". [2] [3] These two species are in the subfamily Coerebinae and form a sister clade to the Darwin's finches. [1]
The species in the genus are: [4]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Asemospiza fuliginosa | Sooty grassquit | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela | |
Asemospiza obscura | Dull-coloured grassquit | Venezuela to Argentina |