Gymnoris

Gymnoris is a genus of passerine birds in the sparrow family Passeridae. Three species are found in Africa while the yellow-throated sparrow ranges from Turkey to India.

Gymnoris
Yellow-throated sparrow (Gymnoris xanthocollis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Passeridae
Genus:	Gymnoris Blyth, 1845
Type species
Fringilla flavicollis[1] Franklin, 1831
Species
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The genus was introduced by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1845 with the yellow-throated sparrow as the type species.^[2][3] The name combines the Ancient Greek words gumnos "bare" or "naked" and rhinos "nostrils".^[4]

Species

There are four species recognized:^[5]

Genus Gymnoris – Blyth, 1845 – four species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Yellow-spotted bush sparrow	Gymnoris pyrgita (Heuglin, 1862)	the Sahel and the Horn of Africa	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Yellow-throated bush sparrow	Gymnoris superciliaris Blyth, 1845	south-central and southern Africa	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Sahel bush sparrow	Gymnoris dentata (Sundevall, 1850)	Africa from Mauritania to Guinea and east to Eritrea and the south-western Arabian Peninsula	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Yellow-throated sparrow	Gymnoris xanthocollis (Burton, 1838) Two subspecies G. x. transfuga G. x. xanthocollis	southern Asia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

These species are sometimes placed in the genus Petronia.