Pipilo Explained
Pipilo is a genus of birds in the American sparrow family Passerellidae. It is one of two genera containing birds with the common name towhee.
Taxonomy
The genus Pipilo was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the eastern towhee as the type species.[1] [2] The name Pipilo is Neo-Latin for "bunting" from pipilare "to chirp".[3] Within the New World sparrow family Passerellidae, the genus Pipilo is sister to the larger genus Atlapetes.[4]
Species
The genus contains five species:[5]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|
| Pipilo chlorurus | | interior Western United States, with a winter range in Mexico and the southern edge of the Southwestern United States |
| Pipilo ocai | | Mexico |
| Pipilo erythrophthalmus | | eastern North America |
| Pipilo maculatus | | across western North America |
| Pipilo naufragus | | Bermuda
- extinct
| |
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Vieillot, Louis Pierre . Louis Pierre Vieillot . Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire . Deterville/self . 1816 . Paris . 32 . French.
- Book: Paynter . Raymond A. Jr . 1970 . Check-List of Birds of the World . 13 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 168 .
- Web site: Jobling . J.A. . 2018 . Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions . 7 July 2018 .
- Bryson . R.W. . Faircloth . B.C. . Tsai . W.L.E. . McCormack . J.E. . Klicka . J. . 2016 . Target enrichment of thousands of ultraconserved elements sheds new light on early relationships within New World sparrows (Aves: Passerellidae) . The Auk . 133 . 3 . 451–458 . 10.1642/AUK-16-26.1. free .
- Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . Rasmussen . Pamela . Pamela Rasmussen . 2020 . New World Sparrows, Bush Tanagers . IOC World Bird List Version 10.2 . International Ornithologists' Union . 12 October 2020 .
