The Marañón sparrow (Arremon nigriceps) is a passerine of bird in the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that is found in the Marañón River basin of northern Peru. The species was formerly considered to be conspecific with the black-capped sparrow (Arremon abeillei).
| Marañón sparrow | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Passerellidae |
| Genus: | Arremon |
| Species: | A. nigriceps
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| Binomial name | |
| Arremon nigriceps Taczanowski, 1880
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| Range in northern Peru | |
Taxonomy
editThe Marañón sparrow was formally described in 1880 by the Polish zoologist Władysław Taczanowski based on a single specimen that had been collected by the Polish zoologist Jan Sztolcman at Callacatein in the Department of Cajamarca of northern Peru. Taczanowski coined the binomial name Arremon nigriceps where the specific epithet combines the Latin niger meaning "black" with -ceps meaning "-headed".[2][3] This sparrow was formerly considered by many ornithologists to be a subspecies of the black-capped sparrow (Arremon abeillei) but is now treated as a separate species based on the differences in plumage and vocalizations as well as the significant genetic divergence.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Arremon nigriceps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103771846A104277763.en. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
- ^ Taczanowski, Władysław (1880). "Liste des oiseaux recueillis au Nord du Pérou par M. Stolzmann pendant les deniers mois de 1878 et dans la première moitié de 1879". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (in French): 189-215 [196].
- ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 186.
- ^ Buainain, N.; Ferreira, M.; Avendaño, J.E.; Cadena, C.D.; Faircloth, B.C.; Brumfield, R.T.; Cracraft, J.; Ribas, C.C. (2022). "Biogeography of a neotropical songbird radiation reveals similar diversification dynamics between montane and lowland clades". Journal of Biogeography. 49 (7): 1260–1273. doi:10.1111/jbi.14379.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2024). "New World Sparrows, Bush Tanagers". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 28 October 2024.