Black-throated euphonia

The black-throated euphonia is a bird in the Fringillidae, or finch 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]

Black-throated euphonia
Illustration by Joseph Smit, 1886
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Subfamily: Euphoniinae
Genus: Euphonia
Species:
E. pectoralis × E. xanthogaster
Synonyms
  • Euphonia catastica Hellmayr, 1936[1]
  • Euphonia vittata Sclater, 1861

References

Notes
  1. SACC
  2. McCarthy (2006).

Sources
  • McCarthy, Eugene M. (2006). Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World. Oxford University Press US. p. 321. ISBN 978-0-19-518323-8.
  • "A classification of the bird species of South America (Part 11)". South American Classification Committee (SACC). American Ornithologists' Union. Archived from the original on 2010-06-26. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
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