Yellow-shouldered Grassquit
Loxipasser anoxanthus(Gosse, PH, 1847)
English (US) Yellow-shouldered Grassquit
The Yellow-shouldered Grassquit (Loxipasser anoxanthus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Thraupidae (Tanagers and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: hills and mountains of JamaicaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Loxipasser anoxanthus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Yellow-shouldered Grassquit
- Described by
- (Gosse, PH, 1847)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Spermophila anoxantha
- Described by
- (Gosse, PH, 1847)
- Type locality
- Mount Edgecumbe, Jamaica.
- Original description
- The birds of Jamaica p.247
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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