Long-tailed reed finch

The long-tailed reed finch (Donacospiza albifrons) is a species of South American bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is the only member of its genus Donacospiza.

Long-tailed reed finch
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Donacospiza
Cabanis, 1851
Species:
D. albifrons
Binomial name
Donacospiza albifrons
(Vieillot, 1817)

It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and swamps.

Taxonomy

The long-tailed reed finch was formally described in 1817 by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot under the binomial name Sylvia albifrons.[2][3] Vieillot based his description on the Cola Aguda del Vientre de Canela that had been described by the Spanish naturalist Félix de Azara in 1805 based on a specimen obtained in Paraguay.[4][5] The long-tailed reed finch is now the only member of the genus Donacospiza that was introduced in 1851 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis.[6][7] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek donax meaning "reed" or "cane" with spiza meaning "finch". The specific epithet combines the Latin albus meaning "white" with frons meaning "forehead" or "front".[8] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[7]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Donacospiza albifrons". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Vieillot, Louis Jean Pierre (1817). Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc (in French). Volume 11. Paris: Deterville. p. 276.
  3. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Volume 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 113.
  4. Azara, Félix de (1805). Apuntamientos para la historia natural de los páxaros del Paragüay y Rio de la Plata (in Spanish). Volume 2. Madrid: Imprenta de la Hija de Ibarra. p. 263, No. CCXXXIV.
  5. Lopes, Leonardo Esteves (2017). "Morphological variation of the Long-tailed Reed Finch Donacospiza albifrons (Vieillot, 1817) (Aves: Thraupidae)". Zootaxa. 4329 (3): 201–218. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4329.3.1. PMID 29242473.
  6. Cabanis, Jean (1850–1851). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German and Latin). Volume 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 136.
  7. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  8. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 38, 139. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
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