Coryphospingus
{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
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| image = Coryphospingus cucullatus.jpg
| image_caption = Red pileated finch (Coryphospingus cucullatus)
| taxon = Coryphospingus
| authority = Cabanis, 1851
| type_species = Fringilla cristata{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=202 |title= Thraupidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}} = Fringilla cucullata
| type_species_authority = Gmelin, 1789
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
}}
Coryphospingus is a small genus of finch-like tanagers found in South America. Coryphospingus was formerly classified in the family Emberizidae along with the buntings and American sparrows.
Taxonomy and species list
The genus Coryphospingus was introduced in 1851 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis.{{ cite book | last=Cabanis | first=Jean | author-link=Jean Cabanis | year=1850–1851 | title=Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt | volume=1 | language=German, Latin | place=Halberstadt | publisher=R. Frantz | page=145 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49584524}} The type species was designated as the red pileated finch by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855.{{ cite book | last=Gray | first=George Robert | author-link=George Robert Gray | year=1855 | title=Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum | location=London | publisher=British Museum | page=73 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17136712 }}{{ cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1970 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=13 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=210 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483445 }} The genus name combines the Ancient Greek koruphē meaning "crown of the head" with spingos meaning "finch".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=119 }} The genus contains two species.{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2020 | title=Tanagers and allies | work=IOC World Bird List Version 10.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/tanagers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=11 November 2020 }}
{{Species table |genus=Coryphospingus |authority-name=Cabanis |authority-year=1851 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
{{Species table/row
|name=Grey pileated finch |binomial=Coryphospingus pileatus
|image=File:Pileated Finch - Brazil S4E1197 (23365435306).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Wied |authority-year=1821 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, and Venezuela
|range-image=File:Coryphospingus pileatus map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat=
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|iucn-status= LC
|population=
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{{Species table/row
|name=Red pileated finch |binomial=Coryphospingus cucullatus
|image=File:Coryphospingus cucullatus -Piraju, Sao Paulo, Brazil-8 (1).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Müller |authority-year=1776 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= southern Brazil and northern Argentina
|range-image=File:Coryphospingus cucullatus map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat=
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Three subspecies |bullets=on
| C. c. cucullatus
| C. c. fargoi
| C. c. rubescens
}}
}}
{{Species table/end}}
References
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