Black-backed Tanager
Stilpnia peruviana(Desmarest, A-G, 1806)
English (US) Black-backed Tanager
The Black-backed Tanager (Stilpnia peruviana) 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: lowlands of southeastern Brazil (Rio de Janeiro to Santa Catarina)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Stilpnia peruviana
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Black-backed Tanager
- Described by
- (Desmarest, A-G, 1806)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Tanagra peruviana
- Described by
- (Desmarest, A-G, 1806)
- Type locality
- rapporte du Perou par Dombey; error, province of Rio de Janeiro suggested by Berlepsch, 1912, Verh. V Intern. Ornith. Kongr., Berlin, 1911, p. 1042.
- Original description
- Histoire naturelle des tangaras, des manakins et des todiers livr.9 textpl.11
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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