Blue-backed tanager
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Cyanicterus
Bonaparte, 1850
Species:
C. cyanicterus
Binomial name
Cyanicterus cyanicterus
(Vieillot, 1819)
Synonyms

Pyranga cyanicterus (protonym)

The blue-backed tanager (Cyanicterus cyanicterus) is a species of South American bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is the only member of the genus Cyanicterus.

It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Taxonomy

The blue-backed tanager was formally described in 1819 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot under the binomial name Pyranga cyanicterus.[2] The type locality is Cayenne in French Guiana.[3] This species is now the only member of the genus Cyanicterus that was introduced by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1850.[4][5] The word cyanicterus is formed from the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "dark-blue" and ikteros meaning "jaundice-yellow".[6] The blue-backed tanager is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[5]

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Cyanicterus cyanicterus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22722555A132016127. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22722555A132016127.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1819). Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc (in French). Vol. 28. Paris: Deterville. p. 290. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.20211.
  3. ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 326.
  4. ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1850). Conspectus Generum Avium (in Latin). Vol. 1. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p. 240.
  5. ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  6. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 126. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.


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