Biology:Melanodera

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Short description: Genus of birds


Melanodera
Yellow-bridled finch male.jpg
Yellow-bridled finch being ringed in Chile.
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Melanodera
Bonaparte, 1850
Type species
Emberiza melanodera
Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
Species

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Melanodera is a genus of Patagonian seed-eating birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Taxonomy and species list

The genus Melanodera was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte with the white-bridled finch (Melanodera melanodera) as the type species.[1][2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek melas meaning "black" and dera meaning "neck".[3] The genus now contains two species.[4]

Image Common Name Scientific name Distribution
Melanodera melanodera (1).jpg White-bridled finch or canary-winged finch Melanodera melanodera southern Argentina and Chile
Yellow-bridled Finch (Melanodera xanthogramma) (15341916183).jpg Yellow-bridled finch Melanodera xanthogramma Argentina and Chile

References

  1. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1850) (in Latin). Conspectus Generum Avium. 1. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p. 470. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43560709. 
  2. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 108. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483343. 
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. 
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/tanagers/. Retrieved 15 October 2020. 

Wikidata ☰ Q517496 entry