Genus of birds
Asemospiza is a genus of South American birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.
Taxonomy and species list.
These species were formerly placed in the genus "Tiaris". A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that "Tiaris" was polyphyletic. In the resulting reorganization to create monophyletic genera, these two species were assigned to a new genus "Asemospiza" with the sooty grassquit as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek ἄσημος/"asēmos" meaning "without marks" with σπίζα/"spiza" meaning "finch". These two species are in the subfamily Coerebinae and form a sister clade to the Darwin's finches.
The species in the genus are:
References.
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