Hooded tanager

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Hooded tanager

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Nemosia
Species:
N. pileata
Binomial name
Nemosia pileata
(Boddaert, 1783)
Synonyms

Tanagra pileata (

protonym
)

The hooded tanager (Nemosia pileata) is a species of bird in the tanager family

Thraupidae
. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural
subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical mangrove forest
, and heavily degraded former forest.

The hooded tanager was described by the French polymath

binomial name Tanagra pileata in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées.[4] The hooded tanager is now placed in the genus Nemosia that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the hooded tanager as the type species.[5][6][7] The genus name is from the Ancient Greek nemos meaning "glade" or "dell". The specific pileata is from the Latin pileatus meaning "-capped".[8]

Six subspecies are recognised:[7]

  • N. p. hypoleuca Todd, 1916 – north Colombia and north Venezuela
  • N. p. surinamensis Zimmer, JT, 1947 – Guyana and Suriname
  • N. p. pileata (Boddaert, 1783) – French Guiana through central Brazil to north Bolivia
  • N. p. interna Zimmer, JT, 1947 – north central Brazil
  • N. p. nana von Berlepsch, 1912 – northeast Peru and west Brazil
  • N. p. caerulea (zu Wied-Neuwied, 1831) – east and south Brazil, southeast Peru to east Bolivia, Paraguay and north Argentina

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22722290A132151238.en
    . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1779). "La coiffe noire". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 7. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. pp. 401–402.
  3. Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "Tangara à coiffe noire, de Cayenne"
    . Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle. Vol. 8. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. Plate 720 Fig. 2.
  4. ^ Boddaert, Pieter (1783). Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés (in French). Utrecht. p. 45, Number 720 Fig. 2.
  5. ^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 32.
  6. ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 276.
  7. ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "New World warblers, mitrospingid tanagers". IOC World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  8. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4
    .

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