Pipilo
{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
{{automatic taxobox
| image = Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus).jpg
| image_caption = Spotted towhee (Pipilo maculatus)
| taxon = Pipilo
| authority = Vieillot, 1816
| type_species = Fringilla erythrophthalma{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=232 |title= Passerellidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}
| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 4, see text
}}
Pipilo is a genus of birds in the American sparrow family Passerellidae. It is one of two genera containing birds with the common name towhee.
Taxonomy
The genus Pipilo was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the eastern towhee as the type species.{{cite book | last=Vieillot | first=Louis Pierre | author-link=Louis Pierre Vieillot | title=Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire | publisher=Deterville/self | year=1816 | location=Paris | page = 32 | language=French| url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9745205x/f38.image }}{{ 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=168 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483403 }} The name Pipilo is Neo-Latin for "bunting" from pipilare "to chirp".{{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/pipilo | accessdate=7 July 2018 }} Within the New World sparrow family Passerellidae, the genus Pipilo is sister to the larger genus Atlapetes.{{Cite journal | last1=Bryson | first1=R.W. | last2=Faircloth | first2=B.C. | last3=Tsai | first3=W.L.E. | last4=McCormack | first4=J.E. | last5=Klicka | first5=J. | date=2016 | title=Target enrichment of thousands of ultraconserved elements sheds new light on early relationships within New World sparrows (Aves: Passerellidae) | journal=The Auk | volume=133 | issue=3 | pages=451–458 | doi=10.1642/AUK-16-26.1| doi-access=free }}
Species
| class="wikitable" | |||
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 120px | Pipilo chlorurus | Green-tailed towhee | interior Western United States, with a winter range in Mexico and the southern edge of the Southwestern United States |
| 120px | Pipilo ocai | Collared towhee | Mexico |
| 120px | Pipilo erythrophthalmus | Eastern towhee | eastern North America |
| 120px | Pipilo maculatus | Spotted towhee | across western North America |
| Pipilo naufragus | Bermuda towhee | Bermuda; extinct |
References
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External links
- {{commons category-inline|Pipilo|Pipilo}}
- {{wikispecies-inline|Pipilo|Pipilo}}
- [http://ibc.lynxeds.com/family/buntings-seedeaters-allies-emberizidae Towhee videos, photos and sounds] on the Internet Bird Collection
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