Blue-backed Tanager
Cyanicterus cyanicterus(Vieillot, LJP, 1819)
English (US) Blue-backed Tanager
The Blue-backed Tanager (Cyanicterus cyanicterus) 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 Thraupidae (Tanagers and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: eastern Venezuela to the Guianas and adjacent northeastern BrazilRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Cyanicterus cyanicterus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Blue-backed Tanager
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1819)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Pyranga cyanicterus
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1819)
- Type locality
- l'Amerique meridionale ; Cayenne suggested by Berlepsch, 1908, Novit. Zool., 15, p. 116.
- Original description
- Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Nouvelle édition 28 p.290
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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