Saltatricula | |
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Many-colored Chaco finch (Saltatricula multicolor) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thraupidae |
Genus: |
Saltatricula Burmeister, 1861 |
Type species | |
Saltatricula multicolor
Burmeister, 1861
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Species | |
2, see text |
Saltatricula is a genus of South American seed-eating birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.
The genus Saltatricula was introduced in 1861 by the German naturalist Hermann Burmeister with the many-colored Chaco finch as the type species. [1] [2] The name is a Latin diminutive of the genus Saltator that had been introduced by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816. [3]
The black-throated saltator was formerly included in the genus Saltator. It was moved Saltatricula based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 that found that the black-throated saltator was genetically distinct from the other members of the genus Saltator but was instead closely related to the many-colored Chaco finch. [4] [5]
The genus contains two species. [5]
Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Many-colored Chaco finch | Saltatricula multicolor | Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay. | |
Black-throated saltator | Saltatricula atricollis | Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. |