Rufous-bellied mountain tanager
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Pseudosaltator K.J. Burns, Unitt & N.A. Mason, 2016 |
| Species: | P. rufiventris
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudosaltator rufiventris (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837)
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Saltator rufiventris ( protonym )
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The rufous-bellied mountain tanager or rufous-bellied saltator (Pseudosaltator rufiventris) is a species of
Thraupidae and is the only member of the genus Pseudosaltator. It is found in the eastern Andes of southern Bolivia and extreme northern Argentina. It occurs mostly at altitudes from 3000 m to 4000 m.[2]
Its habitat is open land, including cultivated land, that has patches of scrub, alder trees, or Polylepis trees.
It is threatened by habitat loss.[1]
Taxonomy
The rufous-bellied mountain tanager was
monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[9]
Description
The plumage is mostly blue-gray with orange underparts from the lower breast to the
undertail coverts. There is a long white stripe over the eye. The bill is gray except that the base of the lower mandible is flesh-colored.[2]
References
- ^ . Retrieved 14 November 2021.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-292-70756-6. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
- ^ d'Orbigny, Alcide; Lafresnaye, Frédéric de (1837). "Synopsis avium". Magasin de Zoologie (in Latin). 7 (2): 1–88 [35].
- ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 235.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- PMID 17920298.
- PMID 24583021.
- PMID 27394344.
- ^ Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 October 2020.