Buff-banded mountain tanager

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Buff-breasted mountain tanager
Buff-breasted Mountain Tanager (Dubusia taeniata) (8079763473).jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Dubusia
Species:
D. taeniata
Binomial name
Dubusia taeniata
(Boissonneau, 1840)
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The buff-banded mountain tanager (Dubusia taeniata), formerly known as the buff-breasted mountain tanager, is a species of Neotropical bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.

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It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Taxonomy

The buff-banded mountain tanager was formally described in 1840 by the French ornithologist Auguste Boissonneau from a specimen collected near Bogotá in Colombia. He coined the binomial name Tanagra taeniata. [2] The specific epithet is the Latin word for a "head-band". [3] This species is now placed in the genus Dubusia that was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. [4] [5]

The streak-crowned mountain tanager and Carriker's mountain tanager were previously treated as subspecies of the buff-banded mountain tanager. They are currently recognized as separate species. Before the split the buff-banded mountain tanager was known as the buff-breasted mountain tanager. [5]

Papallacta Pass, Ecuador Buff-breastedMountain-Tanager.jpg
Papallacta Pass, Ecuador

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2017). "Dubusia taeniata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017 e.T103843076A119459928. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T103843076A119459928.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Boissonneau, Auguste (1840). "Oiseaux nouveaux de Santa-Fé de Bogota". Revue Zoologique (in French). 3: 66–71 [67].
  3. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 377. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. ↑ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1850). "Sur plusieurs genres nouveaux de Passereaux". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences (in French). 31: 423–424 [424].
  5. 1 2 AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi: 10.2173/avilist.v2025 . Retrieved 15 January 2026.


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