Green-headed Tanager
Tangara seledon(Müller, PLS, 1776)
English (US) Green-headed Tanager
The Green-headed Tanager (Tangara seledon) 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: southeastern Paraguay to southeastern Brazil and northeastern Argentina (Misiones)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Tangara seledon
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Green-headed Tanager
- Described by
- (Müller, PLS, 1776)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Tanagra Seledon
- Described by
- (Müller, PLS, 1776)
- Type locality
- Cayenne ; error, Rio de Janeiro substituted by Berlepsch, 1912, Verh. V. Intern. Ornith. Kongr., Berlin, 1911, p. 1027.
- Original description
- Des Ritters Carl von Linné ... vollständigen Natursystems Supplements- und Register-Band über alle sechs Theile oder Classen des Thierreichs p.158
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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