Black-cheeked Mountain-Tanager
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Black-cheeked Mountain-Tanager
Here the details of the Black-cheeked Mountain-Tanager named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Poecilothraupis melanogenys Ibis p.120 pl.3
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Anisognathus
Taxonomy Code: bkcmot1
Type Locality: near San Sebastian (8000 ft.), Santa Marta region, Colombia.
Author: Salvin & Godman
Publish Year: 1880
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ANISOGNATHUS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Fire-bellied Mountain Tanager A. igniventris) Gr. ανισος anisos unequal < negative prefix αν- an- ; ισος isos equal; γναθος gnathos lower jaw; Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXVII, labelled Passerinae: Fringillinae Tanagrinae, shows the toothed upper mandible, shortened lower mandible, and stubby, somewhat bullfinch-like bill of these mountain tanagers. "Anisognathus Reichenbach, June 1, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 77. Type, by subsequent designation (Bonaparte, 1851, Rev. Mag. Zoll.[sic] [Paris], ser. 2, 3, p. 172, Tanagra igniventris d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye." (Storer in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 331).
Synon. Compsocoma, Poecilothraupis.
melanogenia / melanogenis / melanogenius / melanogenys
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos black; γενυς genus, γενυος genuos cheek, chin, jaw.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
