Hooded mountain tanager
Hooded mountain tanager | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thraupidae |
Genus: | Buthraupis Cabanis, 1851 |
Species: | B. montana
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Binomial name | |
Buthraupis montana (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837)
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Hooded mountain tanager range map |
The hooded mountain tanager (Buthraupis montana) is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is the only member of the genus Buthraupis. This yellow, blue and black tanager is found in forest, woodland and shrub in the Andean highlands of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. At 23 centimetres (9.1 in) and 85 grams (3.0 oz), it is one of the largest tanagers (second in weight only to the white-capped tanager).
Taxonomy[]
The hooded mountain tanager was formally described in 1837 by the French naturalists Alcide d'Orbigny and Frédéric de Lafresnaye from a specimen collected in the Bolivian Yungas. They coined the binomial name Aglaia montana.[2][3] It is now the only species placed in the genus Buthraupis that was introduced in 1851 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis.[4][5] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek bou- meaning "huge" and thraupis an unknown small bird but used by ornithologists to signify a tanager. The specific name is from the Latin montanus meaning "of the mountains".[6]
Six subspecies are recognised:[5]
- B. m. venezuelana Aveledo & Perez, 1989 – northwest Venezuela
- B. m. gigas (Bonaparte, 1851) – north Colombia
- B. m. cucullata (Jardine & Selby, 1842) – west, central Colombia to Ecuador
- B. m. cyanonota Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1896 – north, central Peru
- B. m. saturata Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1906 – southeast Peru
- B. m. montana (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) – west Bolivia
References[]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Buthraupis montana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22722601A94774641. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22722601A94774641.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ d'Orbigny, Alcide; Lafresnaye, Frédéric de (1837). "Synopsis avium". Magasin de Zoologie (in Latin). 7 (2): 1–88 [32].
- ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Volume 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 329.
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has extra text (help) - ^ Cabanis, Jean (1850–1851). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German and Latin). Volume 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 29.
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has extra text (help) - ^ 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 3 November 2020.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 81, 259. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Birds of the Northern Andes
- Birds described in 1837
- Thraupidae stubs