Cardinalis

Cardinalis
	Male pyrrhuloxia
	Female pyrrhuloxia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cardinalidae
Genus:	Cardinalis; Bonaparte, 1838
Type species
	Cardinalis virginianus = Loxia cardinalis; Bonaparte, 1838

Cardinalis is a genus of birds in the family Cardinalidae.^[1]^[2] There are three species ranging across the Great Lakes region to northern South America.

Description edit

They are birds between 19 and 22 cm in length. Its most distinctive characteristics are the presence of a conspicuous crest and a thick and strong conical bill. There is sexual dimorphism;^[3] males have a greater amount of red in their plumage, and females have only some tints, with a predominance of gray. Immature individuals are similar to females.

Species edit

Genus **Cardinalis** – Bonaparte, 1838 – three species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Northern cardinal Male Female	Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) Nineteen subspecies^[4] C. c. cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) C. c. affinis Nelson, 1899 C. c. canicaudus Chapman, 1891 C. c. carneus (Lesson, 1842) C. c. clintoni (Banks, 1963) C. c. coccineus Ridgway, 1873 C. c. flammiger J.L. Peters, 1913 C. c. floridanus Ridgway, 1896 C. c. igneus S.F. Baird, 1860 C. c. littoralis Nelson, 1897 C. c. magnirostris Bangs, 1903 C. c. mariae Nelson, 1898 C. c. phillipsi Parkes, 1997 C. c. saturatus Ridgway, 1885 C. c. seftoni (Huey, 1940) C. c. sinaloensis Nelson, 1899 C. c. superbus Ridgway, 1885 C. c. townsendi (van Rossem, 1932) C. c. yucatanicus Ridgway, 1887	United States from Maine to Texas and in Canada in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Its range extends west to the U.S.–Mexico border and south through Mexico to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, northern Guatemala, and northern Belize	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Pyrrhuloxia (desert cardinal) Male Female	Cardinalis sinuatus Bonaparte, 1838	U.S. states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas and woodland edges in Mexico	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Vermilion cardinal Male Female	Cardinalis phoeniceus Bonaparte, 1838	Colombia and Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

References edit

^ "Taxonomy browser (Cardinalis)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
^ "Definition of CARDINALIS". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
^ "Rare half-male, half-female cardinal spotted in Pennsylvania". Animals. 2019-01-31. Archived from the original on February 22, 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Cardinals, grosbeaks and (tanager) allies". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 26 June 2019.

External links edit

Media related to Cardinalis at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Cardinalis at Wikispecies

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[1] "Taxonomy browser (Cardinalis)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2021-05-01.

[2] "Definition of CARDINALIS". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2021-05-01.

[3] "Rare half-male, half-female cardinal spotted in Pennsylvania". Animals. 2019-01-31. Archived from the original on February 22, 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-01.

[ioc-4] Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Cardinals, grosbeaks and (tanager) allies". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 26 June 2019.

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