Saltatricula
Saltatricula is a genus of South American seed-eating birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.
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Saltatricula is a genus of South American seed-eating birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.
==Taxonomy and species list== The genus Saltatricula was introduced in 1861 by the German naturalist Hermann Burmeister with the many-colored Chaco finch as the type species. The name is a Latin diminutive of the genus Saltator that had been introduced by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816.