- Yellow-rumped Seedeater
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Yellow-rumped Seedeater Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Fringillidae Genus: Serinus Species: S. atrogularis Binomial name Serinus atrogularis
(Smith, 1836)The Yellow-rumped Seedeater (Serinus atrogularis), also known as the Black-throated Canary, is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family.
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Distribution
It is found frequently in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Taxonomy
Serinus atrogularis and S. reichenowi (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into S. atrogularis following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).
Phylogeny
It has been obtained by Antonio Arnaiz-Villena et al.[1][2]
References
- ^ Arnaiz-Villena, Antonio; Alvarez-Tejado M., Ruiz-del-Valle V., García-de-la-Torre C., Varela P, Recio M. J., Ferre S., Martinez-Laso J. (1999). "Rapid Radiation of Canaries (Genus Serinus)". Mol. Biol. Evol. 16: 2–11. http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/2.full.pdf.
- ^ Zamora, J; Moscoso J, Ruiz-del-Valle V, Ernesto L, Serrano-Vela JI, Ira-Cachafeiro J, Arnaiz-Villena A (2006). "Conjoint mitochondrial phylogenetic trees for canaries Serinus spp. and goldfinches Carduelis spp. show several specific polytomies". Ardeola 53: 1–17. http://www.ardeola.org/files/1260.pdf.
- BirdLife International 2004. Serinus atrogularis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007.
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