The Yellow-green Bush-tanager is neither a bush-tanager nor a sparrow: Molecular phylogenetics reveals that Chlorospingus flavovirens is a tanager (Aves: Passeriformes; Thraupidae)
Avendaño, J.Enrique.; Barker, F.Keith.; Cadena, C.Daniel.
Zootaxa 4136(2): 373-381
2016
ISSN/ISBN: 1175-5326 PMID: 27395721 Document Number: 686019
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.