title: The Yellow-green Bush-tanager is neither a bush-tanager nor a sparrow: <br />Molecular phylogenetics reveals that Chlorospingus flavovirens is a tanager (Aves: Passeriformes; Thraupidae).
abstract: Molecular phylogenetic analyses of the genus Chlorospingus (Aves: Emberizidae) indicate that the genus is not monophyletic because Chlorospingus flavovirens is actually a member of the tanager family (Thraupidae), in which its closest relatives are members of the genus Bangsia. We thus propose that C. flavovirens be transferred to Thraupidae and to the genus Bangsia.
authors.affiliation: Affiliation: unknown; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Jorge Enrique
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Avendaño
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior and Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, 100 Ecology Building, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: F Keith
authors.initials: FK
authors.lastname: Barker
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Biología Evolutiva de Vertebrados, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, A.A. 4966 Bogotá, Colombia; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Carlos Daniel
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Cadena
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000825:Animal Structures / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000254:growth & development; D000818:Animals; D049628:Body Size; D017753:Ecosystem; D009929:Organ Size; D046109:Passeriformes / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development; D010802:Phylogeny