Buff-breasted mountain tanager

The buff-breasted mountain tanager (Dubusia taeniata) is a species of Neotropical bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Buff-breasted mountain tanager
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Dubusia
Species:
D. taeniata
Binomial name
Dubusia taeniata
(Boissonneau, 1840)

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]

Three subspecies are recognised:[5]

  • D. t. carrikeri Wetmore, 1946 – north Colombia
  • D. t. taeniata (Boissonneau, 1840) – central Colombia and west Venezuela to northwest Peru
  • D. t. stictocephala Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1894 – north Peru to south-central Peru
Papallacta Pass - Ecuador

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Dubusia taeniata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  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.
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