Kingdom Animalia Family Thraupidae (see text) Phylum Chordata Rank Genus | Superfamily Passeroidea Scientific name Tiaris Higher classification American Sparrows Order Passerine | |
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Lower classifications Yellow‑faced grassquit, Cuban grassquit, Black‑faced grassquit, Sooty grassquit, Dull‑coloured grassquit | ||
Tomeguin del pinar verdugo tiaris canourus
Tiaris is a genus of songbirds in the tanager family (Thraupidae), containing the bulk of the grassquits. In late 20th-century sources in particular, it was very often allied to the American sparrows and placed in the Emberizidae family.
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- Tomeguin del pinar verdugo tiaris canourus
- New way to ring band on small birds tiaris canora
- References
It contains the following species:
However, these might not be monophyletic relatives, and warrant the splitting off of some species or merging this genus in another. Phylogenetic studies have hitherto failed to place this genus firmly with respect to a large number of species in the group called "Tholospiza", which typically build nests covered by a dome of material. This group consists of radiations out of Central America, into the Caribbean and into the Pacific. The latter group of these American sparrow-like tanagers are the famous Darwin's finches (including the Cocos finch, Pinaroloxias inornata). The former group includes the Caribbean bullfinches (Loxigilla), the Saint Lucia black finch (Melanospiza richardsoni), the yellow-shouldered grassquit (Loxipasser anoxanthus) – though not the blue-black grassquit (Volatinia jacarina) –, and probably other Caribbean genera too (e.g. orangequit, Euneornis campestris and the puzzling bananaquit, Coereba flaveola).