Cnemathraupis

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Cnemathraupis
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Black-chested mountain tanager, (Cnemathraupis eximia)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Cnemathraupis
Penard, 1919
Type species
Tanagra eximia

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).

Taxonomy and species list

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]

Genus Cnemathraupis Penard, 1919 – two species
Common nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Black-chested mountain tanager

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Cnemathraupis eximia
(Boissonneau, 1840)
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
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Golden-backed mountain tanager

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Cnemathraupis aureodorsalis
(Blake & Hocking, 1974)
central Peru
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References

  1. Sedano, Raul E.; Burns, Kevin J. (2010). "Are the Northern Andes a species pump for Neotropical birds? Phylogenetics and biogeography of a clade of Neotropical tanagers (Aves: Thraupini)". Journal of Biogeography. 37 (2): 325–343. Bibcode:2010JBiog..37..325S. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02200.x. S2CID   53063036.
  2. Penard, Thomas E. (1919). "Revision of the genus Buthraupis Cabanis". Auk. 36 (4): 536–540 [538]. doi: 10.2307/4073348 . JSTOR   4073348.
  3. 1 2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  4. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 111. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
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