Species profile
Emberiza guttata
Emberiza guttata
Quick answer
Holotype: ZMB 6188 (Lichtenstein 1832, Nr. 35, 36, 37 or 38 sub “ Fringilla ”), skin, collected by Meyen in “ Februar ” or “ Maerz ” [= 27 Jan – 24 Feb 1831; see below] in “ Chile ” [= Metropolitan Region, Chile; see below]. Type locality. Meyen (1834 a: 86) stated that he collected Emberiza guttata in “ Provinz Santiago ”. The type locality is thus the Metropolitan Region of Chile, where Meyen worked, with short interruptions, from 27 January to 24 February 1831.
- Scientific name
- Emberiza guttata
- Family
- Emberizidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Emberiza
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Related species in Emberizidae
- black-faced bunting (Emberiza spodocephala)
- Black-Headed Bunting (Emberiza melanocephala)
- Brown-rumped Bunting (Emberiza affinis)
- Cabanis's Bunting (Emberiza cabanisi)
- Cape Bunting (Emberiza capensis)
- Chestnut Bunting (Emberiza rutila)
- Chestnut-eared Bunting (Emberiza fucata)
- Cinereous Bunting (Emberiza cineracea)