Poospiza

Poospiza
Black-and-rufous warbling finch
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Poospiza
Cabanis, 1847
Species

About 15, see text

Poospiza is a genus of finch-like tanagers[1] found in both the South American lowlands and the Andes mountains. Generally they are arboreal feeders in light woodland and scrub. All have extensive grey to their plumage, and haveoften boldwhite or rufous markings.[2]

Taxonomy

Despite many similarities in plumage the genusas traditionally definedappears to consist of four groups each of which are paraphyletic with representatives of six other tanager genera[3] all forming a well-supported clade.[4] Lougheed[4] studied twelve of the seventeen species and consistently recovered the following four groups:

Based on this and other evidence, the two members of group 3 have recently been moved from Poospiza into the resurrected genus Compsospiza.[5]

Additionally, P. caesar was formerly classified in the monotypic genus Poospizopsis.

Species list

Footnotes

  1. Klicka et al. (2007)
  2. Ridgely & Tudor (1989) pp.453-460
  3. Cnemoscopus, Cypsnagra, Hemispingus, Nephelornis, Pyrrhocoma, Thlypopsis
  4. 1 2 Lougheed et al. (2000)
  5. Nores (2008)

References

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