Blue-backed tanager

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Blue-backed tanager
Cyanicterus cyanicterus - Blue-backed Tanager (female); Ramal do Pau Rosa, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.jpg

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Cyanicterus
Bonaparte, 1850
Species:
C. cyanicterus
Binomial name
Cyanicterus cyanicterus
(Vieillot, 1819)
Cyanicterus cyanicterus map.svg
Synonyms

Pyranga cyanicterus (protonym)

The blue-backed tanager (Cyanicterus cyanicterus) is a species of South American bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is the only member of the genus Cyanicterus.

It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Taxonomy[]

The blue-backed tanager was formally described in 1819 by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot under the binomial name Pyranga cyanicterus.[2] The type locality is Cayenne in French Guiana.[3] This species is now the only member of the genus Cyanicterus that was introduced by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1850.[4][5] The word cyanicterus is formed from the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "dark-blue" and ikteros meaning "jaundice-yellow".[6] The blue-backed tanager is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Cyanicterus cyanicterus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ^ Vieillot, Louis Jean Pierre (1819). Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc (in French). Volume 28. Paris: Deterville. p. 290. |volume= has extra text (help)
  3. ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Volume 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 326. |volume= has extra text (help)
  4. ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucian (1850). Conspectus Generum Avium (in Latin). Volume 1. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p. 240. |volume= has extra text (help)
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  6. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 126. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
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