Melanodera

Melanodera is a genus of Patagonian seed-eating birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Melanodera
Yellow-bridled finch being ringed in Chile.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Melanodera Bonaparte, 1850
Type species
Emberiza melanodera Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
Species
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Taxonomy and species list

The genus Melanodera was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte with the white-bridled finch (Melanodera melanodera) as the type species.^[1][2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek melas meaning "black" and dera meaning "neck".^[3] The genus now contains two species.^[4]

Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
	White-bridled finch or canary-winged finch	Melanodera melanodera	southern Argentina and Chile
	Yellow-bridled finch	Melanodera xanthogramma	Argentina and Chile