Grey-headed tanager
| Grey-headed tanager | |
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| At Manizales, Caldas, Colombia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Eucometis Sclater, PL , 1856
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| Species: | E. penicillata
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| Binomial name | |
| Eucometis penicillata (Spix, 1825)
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The grey-headed tanager (Eucometis penicillata) is a widely distributed species of small
Thraupidae. It is the only member of the genus
Eucometis.
It is found in Central America and northern South America from Mexico to Brazil. Its natural
subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical swamps
, and heavily degraded former forest.
Taxonomy
The grey-headed tanager was
type locality by this was later designated as Fonte Boa in the Brazilian state of Amazonas.[3] The grey-headed tanager is now the only species placed in the genus Eucometis that was introduced by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1856.[3][4][5] The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek eukomēs meaning "with lovely hair". The specific epithet penicillata is from the Latin diminutive of peniculus meaning "brush".[6]
Within the
monospecific genus Trichothraupis.[7]
Seven subspecies are recognised:[5]
- E. p. pallida Berlepsch, 1888 – southeast Mexico to Honduras
- E. p. spodocephalus (Bonaparte, 1853) – Nicaragua and north Costa Rica
- E. p. stictothorax Berlepsch, 1888 – west-central Costa Rica to west Panama
- E. p. cristata (Du Bus de Gisignies, 1855) – east Panama, north Colombia and northwest Venezuela
- E. p. affinis Berlepsch, 1888 – north Venezuela
- E. p. penicillata (Spix, 1825) – southeast Colombia, east Ecuador and east Peru east through the Guianas and north Brazil
- E. p. albicollis (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) – Bolivia and Paraguay through central Brazil
References
- . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ von Spix, Johann Baptist (1825). Avium species novae, quas Brasiliam anus MDCCCXVII - MDCCCXX (in Latin). Vol. 2. Monachii [Munich]: Franc. Seraph. Hübschmanni. pp. 36–37, Plate 49 fig. 1.
- ^ a b Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 383–384.
- ^ Sclater, Philip Lutley (1856). "Synopsis Avium Tanagrinarum.– A descriptive catalogue of the known species of Tanagers. Part II". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Part 24 (308): 108–132 [117].
- ^ Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- PMID 24583021.
Further reading
- Skutch, Alexander F. (1954). "Gray-headed tanager" (PDF). Life Histories of Central American Birds. Pacific Coast Avifauna, Number 31. Berkeley, California: Cooper Ornithological Society. pp. 183–188.