Azure-shouldered Tanager
Thraupis cyanoptera(Vieillot, LJP, 1817)
English (US) Azure-shouldered Tanager
The Azure-shouldered Tanager (Thraupis cyanoptera) 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: coastal southeastern Brazil (Minas Gerais to Rio Grande do Sul)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Thraupis cyanoptera
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Azure-shouldered Tanager
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1817)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Saltator cyanopterus
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1817)
- Type locality
- Bresil ; Novo Friburgo, Prov. of Rio de Janeiro, suggested by Naumburg, 1924, Auk, 41, p. 112.
- 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 14 p.104
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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