Biology:Blue-backed tanager

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Short description: Species of bird

Blue-backed tanager
Cyanicterus cyanicterus - Blue-backed Tanager (female); Ramal do Pau Rosa, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.jpg
Scientific classification edit
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)
Cyanicterus cyanicterus map.svg
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. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22722555/132016127. Retrieved 11 November 2021. 
  2. Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1819) (in French). Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc.. 28. Paris: Deterville. p. 290. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.20211. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19430255. 
  3. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 326. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483561. 
  4. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1850) (in Latin). Conspectus Generum Avium. 1. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p. 240. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43560365. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/tanagers/. 
  6. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 126. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. 

Wikidata ☰ Q899711 entry