Spangled Cotinga
Cotinga cayana(Linnaeus, C, 1766)
English (US) Spangled Cotinga
The Spangled Cotinga (Cotinga cayana) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Cotingidae (Cotingas) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: southern Venezuela and the Guianas to northern Bolivia and Amazonian BrazilRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Cotinga cayana
- Family
- Cotingidae (Cotingas)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Spangled Cotinga
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- [Ampelis] cayana
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
- Type locality
- Brazil and Cayenne; type from Cayenne, fide Hellmayr, 1929, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 6, p. 108.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ. Editio duodecima reformata. Tomus I [part 1] p.298
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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