Brown Tanager
Orchesticus abeillei(Lesson, RP, 1839)
English (US) Brown Tanager
The Brown Tanager (Orchesticus abeillei) 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: foothills of southeastern Brazil (southern Bahia and Minas Gerais to Paraná)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Orchesticus abeillei
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Brown Tanager
- Described by
- (Lesson, RP, 1839)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Pyrrhula Abeillei
- Described by
- (Lesson, RP, 1839)
- Type locality
- Brasil ; Rio de Janeiro proposed by Pinto, 1944, Cat. Aves Brasil, (Publ. Dept. Zool., Sao Paulo), pt. 2, p. 538.
- Original description
- Revue Zoologique, par la Société Cuvierienne 2 p.40
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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