Cnemathraupis | |
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Black-chested mountain tanager, (Cnemathraupis eximia) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thraupidae |
Genus: | Cnemathraupis Penard, 1919 |
Type species | |
Tanagra eximia Boissonneau, 1840 |
Cnemathraupis is a small genus of mountain tanagers found in forest and woodland in the Andes of South America. The two species are uncommon and relatively large tanagers with a contrasting blue, yellow and black plumage (golden-backed mountain tanager also has some brown; black-chested mountain tanager some green).
These species were formerly included with the hooded mountain tanager in the genus Buthraupis . A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 found that Buthraupis was polyphyletic. [1] To create monophyletic genera, the black-chested mountain tanager and the golden-backed mountain tanager were moved to the resurrected genus Cnemathraupis that had been erected by Thomas Penard in 1919 with the black-chested mountain tanager as the type species. [2] [3] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek knēmē meaning "leg" or "shin" and thraupis, an unknown small bird. [4] The genus is sister to the grass-green tanager in the monotypic genus Chlorornis . [5]
The genus contains the two species: [3]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Black-chested mountain tanager | Cnemathraupis eximia (Boissonneau, 1840) | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
Golden-backed mountain tanager | Cnemathraupis aureodorsalis (Blake & Hocking, 1974) | central Peru | Size: Habitat: Diet: | EN |
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