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Periporphyrus is a genus of grosbeaks in the cardinal family Cardinalidae.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. OrderPasseriformes
  5. FamilyCardinalidae
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Parent taxon
Cardinalidae
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Periporphyrus is a genus of grosbeaks in the cardinal family Cardinalidae.

The genus was introduced by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1850. The type species was subsequently designated as the red-and-black grosbeak. The name Periporphyrus combines the Ancient Greek peri meaning "exceedingly" with porphureos meaning "rosy".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Periporphyrus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.