Melopyrrha

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Melopyrrha
Cuban bullfinch (Melopyrrha nigra)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Melopyrrha
Bonaparte, 1853
Type species
Loxia nigra
Linnaeus, 1858

Melopyrrha is a genus of

extinct species from the island of Saint Kitts in the Lesser Antilles
.

Taxonomy

The genus Melopyrrha was introduced in 1853 by the French naturalist

polyphyletic and that the Greater Antillean bullfinch, Puerto Rican bullfinch and Cuban bullfinch formed a clade.[5] The three species were therefore placed together in Melopyrrha.[6] In 2021, the possibly extinct St. Kitts bullfinch (M. grandis) was split from M. portoricensis as a distinct species.[7]

Although these species were traditionally placed with the buntings and

Thraupidae and belong to the subfamily Coerebinae that also contains Darwin's finches.[5]

Species

The five species in the genus are:[6]

Image Common Name Scientific name Distribution
Puerto Rican bullfinch Melopyrrha portoricensis Puerto Rico.
St. Kitts bullfinch Melopyrrha grandis Saint Kitts.
Greater Antillean bullfinch Melopyrrha violacea Bahamas, Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti, as well as surrounding islands), Jamaica, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Grand Cayman bullfinch Melopyrrha taylori Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.
Cuban bullfinch Melopyrrha nigra Cuba.

References

  1. ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1853). "Notes sur les collections rapportées en 1853, par M. A. Delattre, de son voyage en Californie et dans le Nicaragua: Troisième communication - Passereux Conirostres". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences (in French). 37: 913–925 [924].
  2. ^ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 82.
  3. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4
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  4. ^ a b Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 151.
  5. ^
    doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006
    .
  6. ^
    Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies"
    . IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  7. ^ "Species Updates – IOC World Bird List". Retrieved 2021-07-29.
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