Tooth-billed tanager

The tooth-billed tanager (Piranga lutea) is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae.

Tooth-billed tanager
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cardinalidae
Genus: Piranga
Species:
P. lutea
Binomial name
Piranga lutea
(Lesson, 1834)

Taxonomy

There six subspecies of Piranga lutea:[1]

  • Piranga lutea testacea P.L. Sclater & Salvin, 1868 (highlands of northern Costa Rica and eastern Panama)
  • Piranga lutea faceta Bangs, 1898 (Santa Marta Mountains in northern Colombia, mountains of northern Venezuela and Trinidad)
  • Piranga lutea haemalea Salvin & Godman, 1883 (Amazonas and Bolívar in southern Venezuela, the Guianas, Serra Imeri in northern Brazil)
  • Piranga lutea toddi Parkes, 1969 (mountains of central Colombia)
  • Piranga hepatica desidiosa Bangs & Noble, 1918 (southwestern Colombia)
  • Piranga lutea lutea (Lesson, 1834) (southwestern Colombia and northwestern Bolivia)

The tooth-billed tanager is sometimes treated as part of a more broadly circumscribed hepatic tanager species, where it makes up the lutea subspecies group (highland hepatic tanager).[2][3] However, the IOC World Bird List splits these birds into three species, also recognising Piranga hepatica (the hepatic tanager) and Piranga flava (the red tanager).[1]

References
  1. Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P. (eds.). "Cardinals, grosbeaks and "tanager" allies". IOC World Bird List. International Ornithological Congress. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  2. "Cardinalidae Cardinals and Allies". Birds of the World Online. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  3. "The Family Cardinalidae". Howard & Moore checklist. 4.1. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
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