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Issue: Vol. 4136 No. 2: 6 Jul. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-07-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.2.7
Page range: 373–381
Abstract views: 65
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The Yellow-green Bush-tanager is neither a bush-tanager nor a sparrow:
Molecular phylogenetics reveals that Chlorospingus flavovirens is a tanager (Aves: Passeriformes; Thraupidae)

Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior and Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, 100 Ecology Building, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
Laboratorio de Biología Evolutiva de Vertebrados, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, A.A. 4966 Bogotá, Colombia
Aves Andes Chocó Emberizoidea Passerellidae polyphyly

Abstract

Molecular phylogenetic analyses of the genus Chlorospingus (Aves: Emberizidae) indicate that the genus is not monophyletic because Chlorospingus flavovirens is actually a member of the tanager family (Thraupidae), in which its closest relatives are members of the genus Bangsia. We thus propose that C. flavovirens be transferred to Thraupidae and to the genus Bangsia.

 

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