Chrysocorythus

	Chrysocorythus ''Chrysocorythus'' is a genus of finches in the family Fringillidae. It contains the following species: * Indonesian serin (''Chrysocorythus estherae'') * Mindanao serin The Mindanao serin (''Chrysocorythus mindanensis'') is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It is found in the Philippines in the areas of Mount Katanglad and Mount Apo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane f ... (''Chrysocorythus mindanensis'') References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15885432 Chrysocorythus Bird genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Chrysocorythus ''Chrysocorythus'' is a genus of finches in the family Fringillidae. It contains the following species: * Indonesian serin (''Chrysocorythus estherae'') * Mindanao serin The Mindanao serin (''Chrysocorythus mindanensis'') is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It is found in the Philippines in the areas of Mount Katanglad and Mount Apo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane f ... (''Chrysocorythus mindanensis'') References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15885432 Chrysocorythus Bird genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Indonesian Serin The Indonesian serin (''Chrysocorythus estherae'') is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It is found in Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forest and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. The Indonesian serin was formerly placed in the genus ''Serinus'' but a phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences found that the species was not closely related to other member of ''Serinus'' nor to the geographically nearest finch, the Vietnamese greenfinch but to the European Goldfinch ''Carduelis carduelis'' and to the Citril Finch ''Carduelis citrinella''. The species was therefore assigned to a separate genus ''Chrysocorythus'', a name that had previously been proposed by the German ornithologist Hans Edmund Wolters in 1967. The Mindanao serin (''C. mindanensis'') of Mindanao was formerly considered conspecific, together called the mountain serin, but was split as a distinct species by the IOC in 2021. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mindanao Serin The Mindanao serin (''Chrysocorythus mindanensis'') is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It is found in the Philippines in the areas of Mount Katanglad and Mount Apo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forest and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. The Mindanao serin was formerly considered conspecific with the Indonesian serin (''Chrysocorythus estherae''), together called the mountain serin, but was split as a distinct species by the IOC in 2021. The Mindanao Serin was first described by S. Dillon Ripley and D. S. Rabor from an adult male collected in 1960 by R. B. Gonzales. The original description also includes a color illustration by Robert Verity Clem, and the type is located in the Yale Peabody Museum.https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1049&context=peabody_museum_natural_history_postilla References Chrysocorythus Endemic birds of the Philippines Birds of Mindanao Mindanao serin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Fringillidae The true finches are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Fringillidae. Finches have stout conical bills adapted for eating seeds and nuts and often have colourful plumage. They occupy a great range of habitats where they are usually resident and do not migrate. They have a worldwide distribution except for Australia and the polar regions. The family Fringillidae contains more than two hundred species divided into fifty genera. It includes species known as siskins, canaries, redpolls, serins, grosbeaks and euphonias. Many birds in other families are also commonly called "finches". These groups include the estrildid finches (Estrildidae) of the Old World tropics and Australia; some members of the Old World bunting family (Emberizidae) and the New World sparrow family (Passerellidae); and the Darwin's finches of the Galapagos islands, now considered members of the tanager family (Thraupidae).Newton (1973), Clement ''et al.'' (1993) Finches and canaries were us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Hans Edmund Wolters Hans Edmund Wolters (11 February 1915 – 22 December 1991) was a German ornithologist from Duisburg. In 1960, he became an associate member of the Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Institute and Museum in Bonn. He became head of the museum's Department of Ornithology in 1973. He was one of the first European ornithologists to use a cladistic Cladistics (; ) is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups (" clades") based on hypotheses of most recent common ancestry. The evidence for hypothesized relationships is typically shared derived char ... classification. This is reflected in his main work ''Die Vogelarten der Erde'' (The Bird Taxa of the World). References 1915 births 1991 deaths German ornithologists People from Duisburg People from the Rhine Province 20th-century German zoologists {{ornithologist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]