Anisognathus
Blue-winged mountain tanager (Anisognathus somptuosus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Anisognathus
Reichenbach, 1850
Type species
Tanagra igniventris
Species

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Anisognathus is a genus of boldly colored tanagers found in the highland forests and woodlands of South America.

Taxonomy and species list

The genus Anisognathus was introduced in 1850 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach.[1] The type species was subsequently designated as the scarlet-bellied mountain tanager by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte.[2][3] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek anisos meaning "unequal" and gnathos meaning "lower jaw".[4] Five species are placed in this genus.[5]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Anisognathus melanogenys Santa Marta mountain tanager Santa Marta Mountains in Colombia
Anisognathus lacrymosus Lacrimose mountain tanager Venezuela, through Colombia and Ecuador, to Peru.
Anisognathus igniventris Scarlet-bellied mountain tanager Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela
Anisognathus somptuosus Blue-winged mountain tanager Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil
Anisognathus notabilis Black-chinned mountain tanager Colombia and Ecuador

References

  1. ^ Reichenbach, Ludwig (1850). Avium Systema Naturale (in German). Vol. 1. Dresden and Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister. Plate LXXVII. For the publication date see: Dickinson, E.C.; Overstreet, L.K.; Dowsett, R.J.; Bruce, M.D. (2011). Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers. Northampton, UK: Aves Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-9568611-1-5.
  2. ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1851). "Note sur les Tangaras, leurs affinités, et descriptions d'espèces nouvelles". Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée. 2nd series (in French). 3: 129–145, 168–179 [172].
  3. ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 331.
  4. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  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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