Granatellus

Granatellus
Red-breasted chat (Granatellus venustus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cardinalidae
Genus:
Bonaparte, 1850
Type species
Granatellus venustus
Bonaparte, 1850

Granatellus is a genus of bird previously placed in the family Parulidae, although biochemical evidence suggests it belongs in Cardinalidae,[1] a move followed by the American Ornithologists' Union in 2009.

Species

Genus Granatellus – Bonaparte, 1850 – three species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Rose-breasted chat

Granatellus pelzelni
Sclater, PL, 1865

Two subspecies
  • G. p. pelzelni
  • G. p. paraensis
Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela
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Diet: 		 LC 


Grey-throated chat

Granatellus sallaei
(Bonaparte, 1856) 		Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico.
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Diet: 		 LC 


Red-breasted chat

Granatellus venustus
(Bonaparte, 1850)

Two subspecies
  • G. v. venustus
  • G. v. francescae
Mexican Pacific slope thorn forests from Sinaloa to Chiapas
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Diet: 		 LC 


References

  1. ^ Klicka, J., K. Burns, AND G. M. Spellman. 2007. Defining a monophyletic Cardinalini: A molecular perspective. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45: 1014-1032.


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