| Sporophila | |
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| Male Variable Seedeater | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Sporophila Cabanis, 1844 |
Sporophila is a genus of Neotropical birds in the Thraupidae family. The seed finches are sometimes also included in this genus.[1]
They are relatively small with stubby, conical bills adapted for feeding on seeds and alike. Most species are strongly sexually dimorphic, and while "typical" adult males often are distinctive, female and immatures of both sexes can be very difficult (in some species virtually impossible) to identify to exact species.[2] Females of at least some of these species have different ultraviolet colours, which can be seen by birds, but not humans.[3] Female-like (paedomorphic) males apparently also occur, at least in some species.[4]
Species[]
There are more than 30 species of Sporophila:
- Lesson's Seedeater, Sporophila bouvronides
- Lined Seedeater, Sporophila lineola
- White-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila leucoptera
- Parrot-billed Seedeater, Sporophila peruviana
- Chestnut-throated Seedeater, Sporophila telasco – the "Tumaco Seedeater" is a stereotyped hybrid between this species and S. minuta
- Drab Seedeater, Sporophila simplex
- Chestnut-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila castaneiventris
- Ruddy-breasted Seedeater, Sporophila minuta
- Black-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila melanogaster
- Copper Seedeater / Capped Seedeater, Sporophila bouvreuil
- Black-and-tawny Seedeater, Sporophila nigrorufa
- Chestnut Seedeater, Sporophila cinnamomea
- Narosky's Seedeater, S. cinnamomea X S. palustris or a colour morph of S. cinnamomea
- Rufous-rumped Seedeater, Sporophila hypochroma
- Pearly-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila pileata
- Tawny-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila hypoxantha
- Marsh Seedeater, Sporophila palustris
- Dark-throated Seedeater, Sporophila ruficollis
- Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater, Sporophila torqueola
- Variable Seedeater, Sporophila corvina
- Grey Seedeater, Sporophila intermedia
- Caqueta Seedeater, Sporophila murallae
- Wing-barred Seedeater, Sporophila americana
- Thick-billed Seed-Finch, Sporophila funerea
- Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch, Sporophila angolensis
- Nicaraguan Seed-Finch, Sporophila nuttingi
- Great-billed Seed-Finch, Sporophila maximiliani
- Large-billed Seed-Finch, Sporophila crassirostris
- Black-billed Seed-Finch, Sporophila atrirostris
- Morellet's Seedeater / White-collared Seedeater, Sporophila morelleti
- White-naped Seedeater, Sporophila fringilloides
- Black-and-white Seedeater, Sporophila luctuosa
- Double-collared Seedeater, Sporophila caerulescens
- Yellow-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila nigricollis
- Hooded Seedeater, Sporophila melanops – possibly extinct (20th century?), a hybrid or a color morph of S. nigricollis
- Dubois's Seedeater, Sporophila ardesiaca – possibly a subspecies or color morph of S. nigricollis
- Slate-coloured Seedeater, Sporophila schistacea
- Buffy-fronted Seedeater, Sporophila frontalis
- Temminck's Seedeater, Sporophila falcirostris
- Plumbeous Seedeater, Sporophila plumbea
- Tropeiro Seedeater, Sporophila beltoni
- Rusty-collared Seedeater, Sporophila collaris
- White-throated Seedeater, Sporophila albogularis
References[]
- ^ South American Classification Committee (2007). Incluir el género Oryzoborus dentro de Sporophila. Accessed 19 January 2010.
- ^ Ridgely, R. S., & G. Tudor (1989). The Birds of South America. Vol. 1. Univ. Texas Press, Austin
- ^ Benites, P., Eaton, M. D., Lijtmaer, D. A., Lougheed, S. C. & Tubaro, P. L. (2010). Analysis from avian visual perspective reveals plumage colour differences among females of capuchino seedeaters (Sporophila). J. Avian Biology. 41: 597–602.
- ^ Areta, J. I. (2009). Paedomorphosis in Sporophila seedeaters. Bull. B.O.C. 2009 129(2): 98-103.
- Lijtmaer, D. A., N. M. Sharpe, P. L. Tubaro & S. C. Lougheed. 2004. Molecular phylogenetics and diversification of the genus Sporophila (Aves: Passeriformes). Mol. Philo. Evol. 33:562-579.
- Robbins, M. B., M. J. Braun, C. J. Huddleston, D. W. Finch, & C. M. Milensky (2005). First Guyana records, natural history, and systematics of the White-winged Seedeater (Dolospingus fringilloides). Ibis 147:334-341.
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