Biology:Santa Marta mountain tanager

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Short description: Species of bird

Santa Marta mountain tanager
Anisognathus melanogenys - Black-cheeked Mountain-Tanager.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Anisognathus
Species:
A. melanogenys
Binomial name
Anisognathus melanogenys
(Salvin & Godman, 1880)
Anisognathus melanogenys map.svg

The Santa Marta mountain tanager (Anisognathus melanogenys), also known as the black-cheeked mountain tanager, is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is endemic to highland forest in the Santa Marta Mountains in Colombia. It is closely related to the widespread lacrimose mountain tanager, but the distributions of the two do not overlap.

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References

Wikidata ☰ Q1588583 entry