Plain-backed Sparrow

Plain-backed Sparrow
Illustration of a male
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Suborder: Passeri
Infraorder: Passerida
Superfamily: Passeroidea
Family: Passeridae
Genus: Passer
Species: P. flaveolus
Binomial name
Passer flaveolus
Blyth, 1844
Synonyms[2][3]

Passer jugiferus Bonaparte, 1850
Passer assimilis Walden, 1870

The Plain-backed Sparrow (Passer flaveolus), also called the Pegu Sparrow or Olive-backed Sparrow, is a sparrow found in the Asian countries of Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Malaysia.[1]

The phylogeny been obtained by Antonio Arnaiz-Villena et al.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b BirdLife International (2009). "Passer flaveolus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/149105. 
  2. ^ Summers-Smith 1988, pp. 199–200
  3. ^ Giebel 1877, p. 35
  4. ^ Allende, Luis M.; Rubio, Isabel; Ruíz-del-Valle, Valentin; Guillén, Jesus; Martínez-Laso, Jorge; Lowy, Ernesto; Varela, Pilar; Zamora, Jorge; Arnaiz-Villena, Antonio (2001). "The Old World sparrows (genus Passer) phylogeography and their relative abundance of nuclear mtDNA pseudogenes" (PDF). Journal of Molecular Evolution 53 (2): 144–154. PMID 11479685. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110721034443/http://chopo.pntic.mec.es/~biolmol/publicaciones/Passer.pdf. 

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