Thick-billed Seedeater

Thick-billed Seedeater
Thick-Billed Seedeater
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Genus: Serinus
Species: S. burtoni
Binomial name
Serinus burtoni
Gray, 1862
Synonyms
  • Crithagra burtoni

The Thick-Billed Seedeater (Serinus burtoni) is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Phylogeny

It has been obtained by Antonio Arnaiz-Villena et al.[1]

References

  1. ^ 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): 1–17. http://www.ardeola.org/files/1260.pdf.