Genus of birds
Saltatricula is a genus of South American seed-eating birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.
Taxonomy and species list.
The genus "Saltatricula" was introduced in 1861 by the German naturalist Hermann Burmeister with the many-colored Chaco finch as the type species. The name is a Latin diminutive of the genus "Saltator" that had been introduced by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816.
The black-throated saltator was formerly included in the genus "Saltator". It was moved "Saltatricula" based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 that found that the black-throated saltator was genetically distinct from the other members of the genus "Saltator" but was instead closely related to the many-colored Chaco finch.
The genus contains two species.
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