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Genus of birds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Asemospiza is a genus of South American birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.
Asemospiza | |
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Sooty grassquit (Asemospiza fuliginosa) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thraupidae |
Genus: | Asemospiza Burns, Unitt & Mason, 2016 |
Type species | |
Fringilla fuliginosa Wied, 1830 | |
Species | |
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These species were formerly placed in the genus Tiaris. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Tiaris was polyphyletic.[1] In the resulting reorganization to create monophyletic genera, these two species were assigned to a new genus Asemospiza with the sooty grassquit as the type species.[2] The name combines the Ancient Greek ἄσημος/asēmos meaning "without marks" with σπίζα/spiza meaning "finch".[2][3] These two species are in the subfamily Coerebinae and form a sister clade to the Darwin's finches.[1]
The species in the genus are:[4]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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![]() | Asemospiza fuliginosa | Sooty grassquit | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela |
![]() | Asemospiza obscura | Dull-coloured grassquit | Venezuela to Argentina |
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