Dusky-faced Tanager
Mitrospingus cassinii(Lawrence, GN, 1861)
English (US) Dusky-faced Tanager
The Dusky-faced Tanager (Mitrospingus cassinii) 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 Mitrospingidae (Mitrospingid Tanagers) in the order Passeriformes.
- Scientific name
- Mitrospingus cassinii
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Dusky-faced Tanager
- Described by
- (Lawrence, GN, 1861)
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Add Your ExpertiseRecognised subspecies
The AviList checklist recognises 2 subspecies for this species.
- Mitrospingus cassinii costaricensis
- Mitrospingus cassinii cassinii
Taxonomic history
- First described as
- Tachyphonus Cassinii
- Described by
- (Lawrence, GN, 1861)
- Type locality
- Panama Railroad; type from Lion Hill, fide Berlepsch, 1912, Verh. V Intern. Ornith. Kongr., Berlin, 1911, p. 1080.
- Original description
- Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 7 p.297
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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