- Rhodopechys
Taxobox
name = "Rhodopechys"
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia =Fringillidae
genus = "Rhodopechys"
genus_authority = Cabanis,1851
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.Rhodopechys is a genus of finches containing four species:
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Crimson-winged Finch , "Rhodopechys sanguinea"
*Trumpeter Finch , "Rhodopechys githaginea"
*Mongolian Finch , "Rhodopechys mongolica"The
Desert Finch , "Carduelis obsoleta" (formerly "Rhodopechys obsoleta"), has turned out to belong to the genus "Carduelis " as indicated byDNA sequences, song and eyestripe pattern; it shares a common ancestor with thegreenfinch es (Zamora "et al.", 2006). See the species account for details.References
* Arnaiz-Villena, A., Moscoso, J., Ruiz-del-Valle, V., Gonzalez, J., Reguera, R., Ferri, A., Wink, M., Serrano-Vela, J. I. 2008. Mitochondrial DNA Phylogenetic Definition of a Group of ‘Arid-Zone’ Carduelini Finches. The Open Ornithology Journal, Volume 1: pp.1-7. (Free download available at http://www.bentham.org/open/tooenij/openaccess2.htm) doi| 10.2174/1874453200801010001
* Cabanis, Jean (1851): [Genus "Rhodopechys"] "In: Museum Heineanum. Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, etc." 1(20): 157 (note) [in German] [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ PDF fulltext available at Gallica: search for "Cabanis"]
* Groth, J. G. 1994. A mitochondrial cytochrome b phylogeny of cardueline finches. Journal für Ornithologie, 135: 31.
* Zamora, Jorge; Lowy, Ernesto; Ruiz-del-Valle, Valentin; Moscoso, Juan; Serrano-Vela, Juan Ignacio; Rivero-de-Aguilar, Juan & Arnaiz-Villena, Antonio (2006): "Rhodopechys obsoleta" (desert finch): a pale ancestor of greenfinches ("Carduelis" spp.) according to molecular phylogeny. "Journal of Ornithology" 147(3): 448–456. DOI|10.1007/s10336-005-0036-2 (HTML abstract). Erratum, "Journal of Ornithology" 147(3): 511–512 DOI|10.1007/s10336-006-0072-6
External links
* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/familia.phtml?idFamilia=195 Rhodopechys videos] on the Internet Bird Collection
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