Gymnoris

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Gymnoris

| image = Chestnut-shouldered Petronia (Petronia xanthocollis) at Bharatpur I IMG 5262.jpg

| image_caption = Yellow-throated sparrow (Gymnoris xanthocollis)

| taxon = Gymnoris

| authority = Blyth, 1845

| type_species = Fringilla flavicollis{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=189 |title= Passeridae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}

| type_species_authority = Franklin, 1831

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

}}

Gymnoris is a genus of passerine birds in the sparrow family Passeridae. Three species are found in Africa while the yellow-throated sparrow ranges from Turkey to India.

The genus was introduced by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1845 with the yellow-throated sparrow as the type species.{{ cite journal | last=Blyth | first=Edward | author-link=Edward Blyth | year=1845 | title=Synopsis of the Indian Fringillidae | journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal | volume=13 Part 2 | issue=156 | pages=944–963 [948] | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40126041 }}{{ cite book | editor-last1=Dickinson | editor-first1=E.C. | editor1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | editor-last2=Christidis | editor-first2=L. | editor2-link=Leslie Christidis | year=2014 | title=The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World | volume=2: Passerines | edition=4th | place=Eastbourne, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-2-2 | page=307 }} The name combines the Ancient Greek words gumnos "bare" or "naked" and rhinos "nostrils".{{cite web | last=Jobling | first=J.A. | year=2018 | title= Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/gymnoris | accessdate=8 May 2018 }}

Species

There are four species recognized:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2018 | title=Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers | work=World Bird List Version 8.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/weavers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=8 May 2018 }}

{{Species table |genus=Gymnoris |authority-name=Blyth|authority-year= 1845 |species-count=four|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

{{Species table/row

|name= Yellow-spotted bush sparrow|binomial=Gymnoris pyrgita

|image=File:Yellow-spotted Petronia - Kenya - Africa.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Heuglin|authority-year= 1862|authority-not-original=yes

|range= the Sahel and the Horn of Africa

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|name=Yellow-throated bush sparrow |binomial=Gymnoris superciliaris

|image=File:Petronia superciliaris.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Blyth|authority-year= 1845 |authority-not-original=

|range= south-central and southern Africa

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|name=Sahel bush sparrow |binomial=Gymnoris dentata

|image=File:Bush Petronia - Gambia (32496310592).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Sundevall |authority-year=1850 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Africa from Mauritania to Guinea and east to Eritrea and the south-western Arabian Peninsula

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|name= Yellow-throated sparrow|binomial=Gymnoris xanthocollis

|image=File:Chestnut-shouldered Petronia, Nagpur by Dr. Tejinder Singh Rawal.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Burton|authority-year= 1838|authority-not-original=yes

|range= southern Asia

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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Two subspecies |bullets=on

| G. x. transfuga

| ''G. x. xanthocollis'

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{{Species table/end}}

These species are sometimes placed in the genus Petronia.

References

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{{Passeridae}}

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Category:Passeridae

Category:Bird genera

Category:Taxa named by Edward Blyth