Bangsia
Appearance
Bangsia | |
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Blue-and-gold tanager, Bangsia arcaei | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thraupidae |
Genus: | Bangsia Penard, 1919 |
Type species | |
Buthraupis caeruleigularis Ridgway, 1893
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Species | |
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Bangsia is a genus of Neotropical birds in the tanager family Thraupidae. They are native to humid forests in Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Costa Rica.
Taxonomy and species list
[edit]The genus Bangsia was introduce in 1919 by the ornithologist Thomas Edward Penard with a subspecies of the blue-and-gold tanager Buthraupis arcaei caeruleigularis as the type. The genus name honours the American ornithologist Outram Bangs.[1] A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the genus Bangsia was sister to the genus Wetmorethraupis which contains only a single species, the orange-throated tanager.[2]
The genus contains six species:[3]
- Blue-and-gold tanager, Bangsia arcaei
- Black-and-gold tanager, Bangsia melanochlamys
- Golden-chested tanager, Bangsia rothschildi
- Moss-backed tanager, Bangsia edwardsi
- Gold-ringed tanager, Bangsia aureocincta
- Yellow-green tanager, Bangsia flavovirens
References
[edit]- ^ Penard, Thomas Edward (1919). "Revision of the genus Buthraupis Cabanis". Auk. 36 (4): 536–540 [539]. doi:10.2307/4073348. JSTOR 4073348.
- ^ Burns, K.J.; Shultz, A.J.; Title, P.O.; Mason, N.A.; Barker, F.K.; Klicka, J.; Lanyon, S.M.; Lovette, I.J. (2014). "Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 75: 41–77. Bibcode:2014MolPE..75...41B. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006. PMID 24583021.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 November 2020.