Overview
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Blackish Blue Seedeater, Blackish-Blue Seedeater
Common Names in French:
Sporophile Noir‚tre
Common Names in German:
Weißachselpfäffchen
Description
Habitat
Vegetation: montaine evergreen forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest • Maximum Elevation: 1,600 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Southern Atlantic Coast • Foraging Strata: Midstory • Center of Abundance: Upper tropical: higher slopes, 900-1,600 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Medium
Biome: Terrestrial
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Aves
()
- Birds
- Order:
Passeriformes
()
- Perching Birds
- Subfamily:
Emberizinae
()
- Tribe:
Thraupini
()
- Genus:
Amaurospiza
()
- Cabanis 1861 J.Orn. 9 no.49 p.3
- Specific name:
moesta
- (Hartlaub) 1853 J.Orn. 1 no.1p.36
- Scientific name: - Amaurospiza moesta (Hartlaub) 1853
- Specific name:
moesta
- (Hartlaub) 1853 J.Orn. 1 no.1p.36
- Genus:
Amaurospiza
(
- Tribe:
Thraupini
(
- Subfamily:
Emberizinae
(
- Order:
Passeriformes
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
Members of the genus Amaurospiza
There are approximately 9 species in this genus:
A. aequatorialis · A. axillaris · A. carrizalensis · A. concolor (Blue Seedeater) · A. concolor aequatorialis · A. concolor concolor (Blue Seedeater) · A. concolor relicta · A. moesta (Blackish-Blue Seedeater) · A. relicta (Slate-Blue Seedeater)
More Info
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Further Reading
- A contribution to the ornithology of northeastern Brazil, by Charles E. Hellmayr. Chicago, 1929. ENG url p. 294.
- Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
- BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
- Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1938. ENG url p. 239, p. 240.
- Collar, N.J. and Andrew, P. 1988. Birds to Watch. The ICBP World Checklist of Threatened Birds. ICBP Technical Publication No. 8. Page Bros. (Norwich) Ltd, Norfolk, England.
- Collar, N.J., Crosby, M.J. and Stattersfield, A.J. 1994. Birds to Watch 2. The World List of Threatened Birds BirdLife International. Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd, U.K.
- IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 3, 2006.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 09, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 09, 2008:
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3850828
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-558542
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13740631
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 558542
- IUCN ID: 1009
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 724
