Lesser Antillean Tanager
Stilpnia cucullata(Swainson, WJ, 1834)
English (US) Lesser Antillean Tanager
The Lesser Antillean Tanager (Stilpnia cucullata) 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.
- Scientific name
- Stilpnia cucullata
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Not Evaluated
- English (US)
- Lesser Antillean Tanager
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1834)
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Add Your ExpertiseRecognised subspecies
The AviList checklist recognises 2 subspecies for this species.
- Stilpnia cucullata versicolor
- Stilpnia cucullata cucullata
Taxonomic history
- First described as
- A[glaia] Cucullata
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1834)
- Type locality
- no locality, supposedly Brazil ; Grenada substituted by Berlepsch, 1912, Verh. V Intern. Ornith. Kongr., Berlin, 1911, p. 1041.
- Original description
- The ornithological drawings of William Swainson (series 1) ; the birds of Brazil 1 pl.7
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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