Geothlypis

Grey-crowned yellowthroat Geothlypis poliocephala, copyright Dominic Sherony.

Belongs within: Parulidae.

Geothlypis, yellowthroats, is a genus of American warblers with yellow-green upperparts and bright yellow underparts.

<==Geothlypis Cabanis 1847 [incl. Trichas Swainson 1827; Geothlypidae, Trichadidae]B94
| i. s.: G. auricularisJT12
| G. chiriquensisJT12
| G. velataJT12
|--+--G. poliocephalaBKB15
| `--+--+--G. aequinoctialisBKB15
| | `--G. formosaBKB15 [=Oporornis formosusJT12]
| `--+--Oporornis Baird 1858BKB15, S05
| | `--O. agilisBKB15
| `--+--G. philadelphia (Wilson 1810)BKB15, S05 (see below for synonymy)
| `--G. tolmieiBKB15 [=Oporornis tolmieiJT12]
`--+--Leucopeza semperiBKB15
`--+--+--G. semiflavaBKB15
| `--G. speciosaBKB15
`--+--G. beldingiBKB15
| |--G. b. beldingiHSS13
| `--G. b. goldmaniHSS13
`--+--G. rostrataBKB15
`--+--G. flavovelataBKB15
`--+--G. nelsoniBKB15
`--G. trichas (Linnaeus 1766)BKB15, U93
|--G. t. trichasFS55
`--G. t. brachidactylaFS55

Geothlypis philadelphia (Wilson 1810)BKB15, S05 [=Sylvia philadelphiaS05, Oporornis philadelphiaJT12, Trichas philadelphiaS05]

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[B94] Bock, W. J. 1994. History and nomenclature of avian family-group names. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 222: 1–281.

[BKB15] Burleigh, J. G., R. T. Kimball & E. L. Braun. 2015. Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 53–63.

[FS55] Felten, H., & J. Steinbacher. 1955. Zur Vogelfauna von El Salvador. Senckenbergiana Biologica 36 (1–2): 9–19.

[HSS13] Hirschfeld, E., A. Swash & R. Still. 2013. The World’s Rarest Birds. Princeton University Press: Princeton (New Jersey).

[JT12] Jetz, W., G. H. Thomas, J. B. Joy, K. Hartmann & A. Ø. Mooers. 2012. The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491: 444–448.

[S05] Schalow, H. 1905. Die Vögel der Arktis. In: Römer, F., & F. Schaudinn (eds) Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellun der arktischen Tierformen, mit besonder Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898 vol. 4 pp. 79–288. Gustav Fischer: Jena.

[U93] Unwin, D. M. 1993. Aves. In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 717–737. Chapman & Hall: London.

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