Crithagra
Genus of birds
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Crithagra is a genus of small passerine birds in the finch family (Fringillidae). They live in Africa and Arabia.
| Crithagra | |
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| Male brimstone canary (Crithagra sulphurata sharpii) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Fringillidae |
| Subfamily: | Carduelinae |
| Genus: | Crithagra Swainson, 1827 |
| Type species | |
| Loxia sulphurata[1] Linnaeus, 1766 | |
| Species | |
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See text | |
The species in this genus were formerly assigned to the genus Serinus, but phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences found that the genus was polyphyletic.[2] It was therefore split into two monophyletic genera. Eight species, including the European serin (Serinus serinus), were retained in Serinus, while the other species were assigned to the resurrected genus Crithagra.[3]
Species
The genus was introduced in 1827 by the English ornithologist William Swainson.[4] The type species was subsequently designated as the brimstone canary.[5] The name comes from the classical Greek krithē for "barley" and agra for "hunting".[6]
The genus contains 37 species:[3]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Príncipe seedeater | Crithagra rufobrunnea | São Tomé and Príncipe |
| São Tomé grosbeak | Crithagra concolor | São Tomé | |
.jpg) | African citril | Crithagra citrinelloides | Ethiopia, Eritrea to western Kenya. |
.jpg) | Western citril | Crithagra frontalis | central Africa |
 | Southern citril | Crithagra hyposticta | South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi. |
 | Black-faced canary | Crithagra capistrata | Angola, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Zambia. |
_(cropped).jpg) | Papyrus canary | Crithagra koliensis | Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda |
_facing_left,_side_view.jpg) | Forest canary | Crithagra scotops | Cameroon, Congo, and Kenya. |
.jpg) | White-rumped seedeater | Crithagra leucopygia | Sudan |
 | Black-throated canary | Crithagra atrogularis | Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. |
| Yellow-rumped seedeater | Crithagra xanthopygia | Eritrea, Kenya and Ethiopia. | |
.jpg) | Reichenow's seedeater | Crithagra reichenowi | eastern Africa |
 | Arabian serin | Crithagra rothschildi | Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna |
| Yellow-throated seedeater | Crithagra flavigula | Ethiopia. | |
 | Salvadori's seedeater | Crithagra xantholaema | Ethiopia. |
.jpg) | Lemon-breasted canary | Crithagra citrinipectus | Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. |
.jpg) | Yellow-fronted canary | Crithagra mozambica | Africa south of the Sahara Desert. |
.jpg) | White-bellied canary | Crithagra dorsostriata | Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. |
| Ankober serin | Crithagra ankoberensis | Ethiopia | |
 | Yemen serin | Crithagra menachensis | Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna |
 | Cape siskin | Crithagra totta | South Africa. |
 | Drakensberg siskin | Crithagra symonsi | South Africa, |
| Northern grosbeak-canary | Crithagra donaldsoni | Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. | |
.jpg) | Southern grosbeak-canary | Crithagra buchanani | Kenya and Tanzania. |
 | Yellow canary | Crithagra flaviventris | southern Africa |
| Brimstone canary | Crithagra sulphurata | central and southern Africa. |
_(17558998772).jpg) | Stripe-breasted seedeater | Crithagra striatipectus[7] | Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya. |
| Reichard's seedeater | Crithagra reichardi | Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania | |
.jpg) | Streaky-headed seedeater | Crithagra gularis | southern Africa. |
| West African seedeater | Crithagra canicapilla | Guinea, Sierra Leone, southern Mali and northern Ivory Coast across to southern Niger and northern Cameroon | |
 | Black-eared seedeater | Crithagra mennelli | Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. |
 | Brown-rumped seedeater | Crithagra tristriata | Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. |
,_crop.jpg) | White-throated canary | Crithagra albogularis | Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa. |
 | Thick-billed seedeater | Crithagra burtoni | Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. |
.jpg) | Streaky seedeater | Crithagra striolata | Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. |
| Yellow-browed seedeater | Crithagra whytii | Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia. | |
| Kipengere seedeater | Crithagra melanochroa | Tanzania | |
 | Protea canary | Crithagra leucoptera | South Africa. |