Nesospiza
Encyclopedia
Nesospiza is a genus
of seed-eating tanagers found on the Tristan da Cunha
archipelago
in the South Atlantic Ocean
.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of seed-eating tanagers found on the Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha is a remote volcanic group of islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and the main island of that group. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying from the nearest land, South Africa, and from South America...
archipelago
Archipelago
An archipelago , sometimes called an island group, is a chain or cluster of islands. The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι- – arkhi- and πέλαγος – pélagos through the Italian arcipelago...
in the South Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...
.
Species list
- Inaccessible Island Finch, Nesospiza acunhae
- Nightingale Island Finch, Nesospiza questi
- Wilkins's Finch, Nesospiza wilkinsi