Antioquia Brush-finch

Taxobox
name = Antioquia Brush-finch


status = Not evaluated
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Emberizidae
genus = "Atlapetes"
species = "A. blancae"
binomial = "Atlapetes blancae"
binomial_authority = Donegan, 2007
synonyms =

The Antioquia Brush-finch ("Atlapetes blancae") is a poorly known species from the Emberizidae family. It was scientifically described in 2007 on basis of three museum specimens from Antioquia, Colombia, which were previously labelled as Slaty Brush-finch ("Atlapetus schistaceus"). The specific epithet "blancae" refers to the whitish underparts of the new species, while also commemorating the Colombian lepidopterologist Blanca Huertas, the wife of ornithologist Thomas Donegan (who described the species). All three museum skins were collected in the 20th century, but only one label has a date, which is given with 1971. Subsequent fieldwork in Antioquia has failed to find this species again. The species description has been approved by the South American Classification Committee. It has been recommended for critically endangered status.

References

*DONEGAN, T. M. 2007. "A new species of brush finch (Emberizidae: Atlapetes) from the northern Central Andes of Colombia". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 127(4): 255-268.

External links

* [http://www.proaves.org/breve.php?id_breve=110 Conservationists concerned for new bird species]
* [http://www.proaves.org/breve.php?id_breve=109 Nueva especie de Gorrion Colombiano en Peligro de Extincion]
* [http://www.wildlifeextra.com/do/ecco.py/view_item?listid=1&listcatid=284&listitemid=2223 New Bird Species Recognised in Colombia, May Already be Extinct]
* [http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~remsen/SACCprop332.html Recognize Atlapetes blancae as a species]