Taxonomy in Flux<\/em><\/a><\/strong> project) regards as tribes and aggregates into two subfamilies, with six tribes in one subfamily and twelve in the other, as follows:<\/p>Thraupinae:<\/span> Six tribes of tanagers and finches (116 to 142 species)<\/p>Catamblyrhynchini:<\/span> Plushcap (1 species)<\/p>Porphyrospizini:<\/span> Inca-finches (9 or 10 species)<\/p>Orchesticini:<\/span> Grosbeak-tanagers (2 species)<\/p>Pipraeideini:<\/span> Mountain-tanagers (22 to 32 species)<\/p>Cissopini:<\/span> Cardinal-tanagers (26 to 28 species)<\/p>Thraupini:<\/span> Tangara<\/em> tanagers (56 to 69 species)<\/p>Dacninae:<\/span> Twelve tribes of tanagers and finches (271 to 306 species, plus one extinct)<\/p>Nemosiini:<\/span> Flocking tanagers (5 species)<\/p>Conirostrini:<\/span> Conebills (11 to 13 species)<\/p>Diglossini:<\/span> Sierra-finches (54 to 67 species)<\/p>Hemithraupini:<\/span> Yellow-and-black tanagers (9 species)<\/p>Tachyphonini:<\/span> Ornamented tanagers (31 to 34 species)<\/p>Charitospizini:<\/span> Coal-crested Finch (1 species)<\/p>Dacnini:<\/span> Blue tanagers (15 species)<\/p>Emberizoidini:<\/span> Grass-finches (6 or 7 species)<\/p>Saltatorini:<\/span> Saltators (18 species)<\/p>Poospizini:<\/span> Warbling-finches (47 to 52 species)<\/p>Coeribini:<\/span> Bullfinches (33 to 42 species, plus one extinct)<\/p>Sporophilini:<\/span> Neotropical seedeaters (41 to 43 species)<\/p>This arrangement excludes two closely related branches\u2014each currently recognized as an independent family, the Mitrospingidae<\/em> (mitrospingid tanagers) and Cardinalidae<\/em> (cardinals)\u2014which could be regarded as subfamilies within the Thraupidae<\/em>. \u00a0That revision seems likely, if not inevitable, as members of both groups share most of their descriptive features with many current thraupids, and the difference between classifying them as closely affiliated families versus subfamilies seems to be a fundamentally subjective and arbitrary judgment.<\/p>The species-level taxonomy of this huge family has many areas of instability, and large-scale subdivisions of some \u201cspecies\u201d seem overdue.\u00a0 To take a familiar example, the widespread Bananaquit<\/strong> (Coereba flaveola<\/em>) is conspicuously diverse and almost certainly includes more than one species, but the subdivisions within it are complex, and definitive lines are difficult to draw.\u00a0 Subject to great uncertainty, the eighteen-tribe iteration of the Thraupidae<\/em> totals somewhere in the range of approximately 387 to 448 species, plus one recently extinct.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t