Olive-green Tanager
Orthogonys chloricterus(Vieillot, LJP, 1819)
English (US) Olive-green Tanager
The Olive-green Tanager (Orthogonys chloricterus) 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.
Range: montane forest of southeastern Brazil (EspĂrito Santo to Santa Catarina)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Orthogonys chloricterus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Olive-green Tanager
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1819)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Tachyphonus chloricterus
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1819)
- Type locality
- Bresil [= vicinity of Rio de Janeiro, fide Hellmayr, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 9, p. 296].
- 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 32 p.360
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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