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.
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| Male pyrrhuloxia | |
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| Female pyrrhuloxia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cardinalidae |
| Genus: | Cardinalis Bonaparte, 1838 |
| Type species | |
| Cardinalis virginianus = Loxia cardinalis Bonaparte, 1838
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Description
editThey 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| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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| Northern cardinal
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Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) Nineteen subspecies[4]
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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
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LC
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| Pyrrhuloxia (desert cardinal)
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Cardinalis sinuatus Bonaparte, 1838 |
U.S. states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas and woodland edges in Mexico
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| Vermilion cardinal
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Cardinalis phoeniceus Bonaparte, 1838 |
Colombia and Venezuela
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Phylogeny
editCladogram based on analysis by Tilston Smith and Klicka published in 2013.[5]
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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.
- ^ https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Multilocus-species-tree-and-mtDNA-tree-for-Cardinalis-cardinalis-and-allies-Species-tree_fig2_235778391
External links
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Media related to Cardinalis at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Cardinalis at Wikispecies
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