Yellow-rumped Seedeater

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

  1. ^ 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. 
  2. ^ 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.