Orange-throated tanager

Orange-throated tanager
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Wetmorethraupis Lowery & O'Neill, 1964
Species:	W. sterrhopteron
Binomial name
Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron Lowery & O'Neill, 1964

The orange-throated tanager (Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron) is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae that is found very locally in humid forests around the Ecuador-Peru border. As a species it is considered threatened. The orange-throated tanager is the only member of the genus Wetmorethraupis, named after the ornithologist Alexander Wetmore. It is closely related to members of the genus Bangsia .

Taxonomy

The orange-throated tanager was formally described by George Lowery and John O'Neill in 1964. The authors placed the species in a new genus Wetmorethraupis to give the binomial name Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron. The genus name honours the American ornithologist Alexander Wetmore by combining his name with the genus name Thraupis , the type genus of the tanager family Thraupidae. ^[2] The specific epithet combines the Ancient Greek sterrhos meaning "stiff" or "hard" with pteron meaning feather. ^[3]

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Wetmorethraupis was the sister taxon to Bangsia. ^[4] The orange-throated tanager is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. ^[5]

References

1. BirdLife International (2016). "Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T22722621A94775559. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22722621A94775559.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. Lowery, George H. Jr.; O'Neill, John P. (1964). "A new genus and species of tanager from Peru". The Auk. 81 (2): 125–131. doi: 10.2307/4082763 . JSTOR   4082763.
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 365. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. Burns, K.J.; Shultz, A.J.; Title, P.O.; Mason, N.A.; Barker, F.K.; Klicka, J.; Lanyon, S.M.; Lovette, I.J. (2014). "Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds" . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 75: 41–77. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006. PMID   24583021.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 November 2020.

• Schulenberg, T., Stotz, D., Lane, D., O'Neill, J., & Parker III, T. (2007). Birds of Peru. Christopher Helm. ISBN   978-0-7136-8673-9

External links

• Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the orange-throated tanager