Buff-breasted mountain tanager

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Buff-breasted mountain tanager
Buff-breasted Mountain Tanager (Dubusia taeniata) (8079763473).jpg
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Dubusia
Species:
D. taeniata
Binomial name
Dubusia taeniata
(Boissonneau, 1840)
Dubusia taeniata map.svg

The buff-breasted mountain tanager (Dubusia taeniata) 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-breasted 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]

Streak-crowned mountain tanager and Carriker's mountain tanager was previously treated as subspecies of buff-breasted mountain tanager. While they are currently recognized as separate species. [6]

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

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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. 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.
  6. Gill, F; Donsker, D; Rasmussen, P, eds. (2023). IOC World Bird List (v 13.2). doi:10.14344/IOC.ML.13.2.