See text Pyrrhulagra Loxigilla is a genus of passerine birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.
The genus Loxigilla was introduced in 1831 by the French naturalist René Lesson.
[1] The type species was later designated as the Lesser Antillean bullfinch by George Robert Gray in 1855.
[2][3] The name is a combination of two genera introduced by Carl Linnaeus in 1758: Loxia for the crossbills and Fringilla for a group of finches.
[4] Although formerly placed with the buntings and New World sparrows in the family Emberizidae,[3] molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that the genus is a member of the tanager family Thraupidae and belongs to the subfamily Coerebinae which also includes Darwin's finches.