Fringilla alaudina Kittlitz, 1833

Burns, Kevin J., Unitt, Philip & Mason, Nicholas A., 2016, A genus-level classification of the family Thraupidae (Class Aves: Order Passeriformes), Zootaxa 4088 (3), pp. 329-354 : 333-334

2. Recognize Corydospiza Sundevall, 1872

[type = Fringilla alaudina Kittlitz, 1833 , currently Phrygilus alaudinus (Kittlitz, 1883) ], for Phrygilus carbonarius d’Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837, and P. alaudinus (Kittlitz, 1833) ( Fig. 1 ).

Because Corydospiza is feminine in gender and Phrygilus is masculine, the name Phrygilus carbonarius becomes Corydospiza carbonaria , P. alaudinus becomes C. alaudina , P. a. alaudinus becomes C. a. alaudina , P. a.

bipartitus Zimmer, 1924, becomes C. a. bipartita, and P. a. excelsus Berlepsch, 1907, becomes C. a. excelsa. Other subspecific names in this genus are invariable.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Maximum clade credibility tree from the Bayesian analyses of Burns et al. (2014). Subfamilies Catamblyrhynchinae, Charitospizinae, Orchesticinae, Nemosiinae, Emberizoidinae, Porphyrospizinae, Hemithraupinae, Dacninae, and Saltatorinae shown. Branch lengths are proportional to the number of nucleotide substitutions, and only strongly supported nodes (> 70 maximum likelihood bootstrap or> 0.95 posterior probability) are shown. Nodes that fail to meet either support threshold are collapsed to polytomies. The posterior probability from the Bayesian analysis is given above the branch leading to each node, and the maximum likelihood bootstrap value is given below that branch. Circled numbers correspond to recommended changes described in the text. Names along the backbone represent the subfamily classification proposed in Burns et al. (2014). Names at terminals correspond to classification alternative 1 (from Table 1). Names in parentheses are used in Clements et al. (2015). Sister clades and polytomies are arranged from least to most speciose.