Xestospiza | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Suborder: | Passeri |
Family: | Fringillidae |
Subfamily: | Drepanidinae |
Genus: | Xestospiza Storrs L. Olson & Helen F. James |
Species | |
Xestospiza conica |
Xestospiza is a genus containing two species of birds with cone-shaped bills that were described on the basis of fossils. They were possibly insectivores. It consists of the following: