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
{{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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{{Species table/row
|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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|iucn-status= LC
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Two subspecies |bullets=on
| G. x. transfuga
| ''G. x. xanthocollis'
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These species are sometimes placed in the genus Petronia.
References
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{{Passeridae}}
{{Passeroidea|P.|state=collapsed}}
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