Un caso de ginandromorfía en el Cardenal Norteño (Cardinalis cardinalis) en México, con una revisión de otros casos en Norteamérica

Erick Rubén Rodríguez-Ruíz; Santiago Castro-Gutiérrez

doi:10.59517/oc.e544

Authors

Erick Rubén Rodríguez-Ruíz Postgrado en Energías Renovables de la Universidad Politécnica de Victoria, Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Tamaulipas. Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México / Departamento de Inventario y Monitoreo de Fauna de la Comisión de Parques y Biodiversidad de Tamaulipas. Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8483-826X
Santiago Castro-Gutiérrez Parque de Educación Ambiental “El Refugio de Potosí”. Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, México https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0927-1862

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59517/oc.e544

Keywords:

Cardinalidae, bilateral gynandromorphis, birds gynandromorphis, hermaphrodite, intersex, leucism, plumage, chimerism

Abstract

Gynandromorphism is a phenomenon of an organism that possesses both male and female tissues and features that are unusual in nature, and rarely occurs in birds. During April 2020, we observed a possible bilateral Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) gynandromorph, in Mexico’s west coast, representing the first report of this kind for the whole country. Comparing to the historic reports of gynandromorphism in C. cardinalis, we noted that the plumage coloration on bilateral distribution excludes a bodily pattern and in some cases is incomplete. The causality of gynandromorphism is a genetic-phenotypic issue not yet well understood that still needs to be clarified through research in this especially interesting line; incidence records contribute to understanding behavior and areas of incidence, while future studies at the genomic level will be able to resolve and clarify this abnormality.

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