Blue-capped tanager

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Blue-capped tanager
In El Ávila National Park, Caracas, Venezuela

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Sporathraupis
Ridgway, 1898
Species:
S. cyanocephala
Binomial name
Sporathraupis cyanocephala
Synonyms

Aglaia cyanocephala (

protonym
)
Thraupis cyanocephala

The blue-capped tanager (Sporathraupis cyanocephala) is a

Thraupidae. It was formerly placed in the genus Thraupis
but is now the only species in the genus Sporathraupis.

It is found in

montane forests
and heavily degraded former forest.

Taxonomy

The blue-capped tanager was

molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that it was not closely related to other members of Thraupis, it was moved to the resurrected genus Sporathraupis that had been erected in 1898 by Robert Ridgway with the blue-capped tanager as the type species.[4][5][6] The genus name Sporathraupis combines the Ancient Greek spora meaning "seed" with thraupis, the word for an unknown small bird. The specific epithet combines the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "dark blue" with -kephalos meaning "-headed".[7]

Eight subspecies are recognised:[8]

  • S. c. cyanocephala (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) – Ecuador, Peru and north Bolivia
  • S. c. annectens (Zimmer, JT, 1944) – central, west Colombia
  • S. c. auricrissa (Sclater, PL, 1856) – northeast Colombia and northwest Venezuela
  • S. c. margaritae Chapman, 1912 – north Colombia
  • S. c. hypophaea Todd, 1917 – northwest to north-central Venezuela
  • S. c. olivicyanea (Lafresnaye, 1843) – north-central Venezuela
  • S. c. subcinerea (Sclater, PL, 1861) – north-central to northeast Venezuela
  • S. c. buesingi Hellmayr & Seilern, 1913 – extreme northeast Venezuela and Trinidad

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22722549A132155620.en
    . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ d'Orbigny, Alcide; Lafresnaye, Frédéric de (1837). "Synopsis avium". Magasin de Zoologie (in Latin). 7 (2): 1–88 [32].
  3. ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 324.
  4. JSTOR 4068573
    .
  5. PMID 24583021
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  6. PMID 27394344
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  7. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4
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  8. Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies"
    . IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 October 2020.

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