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.
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| Spotted towhee (Pipilo maculatus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Passerellidae |
| Genus: | Pipilo Vieillot, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Fringilla erythrophthalma[1] Linnaeus, 1758
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Taxonomy
editThe genus Pipilo was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the eastern towhee as the type species.[2][3] The name Pipilo is Neo-Latin for "bunting" from pipilare "to chirp".[4] Within the New World sparrow family Passerellidae, the genus Pipilo is sister to the larger genus Atlapetes.[5]
Species
editThe genus contains five species:[6]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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Pipilo chlorurus | Green-tailed towhee | interior Western United States, with a winter range in Mexico and the southern edge of the Southwestern United States |
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Pipilo ocai | Collared towhee | Mexico |
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Pipilo erythrophthalmus | Eastern towhee | eastern North America |
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Pipilo maculatus | Spotted towhee | across western North America |
| Pipilo naufragus | Bermuda towhee | Bermuda; extinct |
References
edit- ^ "Passerellidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 32.
- ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 168.
- ^ Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 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. doi:10.1642/AUK-16-26.1.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "New World Sparrows, Bush Tanagers". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
External links
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Media related to Pipilo at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Pipilo at Wikispecies- Towhee videos, photos and sounds on the Internet Bird Collection
