Black-throated euphonia

Black-throated euphonia
Illustration by Joseph Smit, 1886
Conservation status
NR
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Euphonia
Species: E. pectoralis x E. xanthogaster
Synonyms

Euphonia catastica Hellmayr, 1936[1]
Euphonia vittata Sclater, 1861

The black-throated euphonia is a bird in the Thraupidae, or Tanager family. It is known only by a single specimen in the British Natural History Museum with the type locality given as Rio de Janeiro, and was originally described as Euphonia vittata by Philip Sclater in 1861. It is now thought to be an intrageneric hybrid between the chestnut-bellied euphonia (Euphonia pectoralis) and the orange-bellied euphonia (Euphonia xanthogaster).[2]

References

Notes

  1. SACC
  2. McCarthy (2006).

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