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Heterospingus
Sign in to saveHeterospingus is a small genus of medium-sized birds in the tanager family Thraupidae that are found in the forests of Central and South America.
Species
Scarlet-browed Tanager
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyThraupidae
Observations162
Observations recorded10,475
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 40
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Thraupidae
- Collections
- CUMV, USNM, WFVZ, CLO, LSUMZ, ROM
- Recorded in
- Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Costa Rica
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Taxonomy and species list
- References
Heterospingus is a small genus of medium-sized birds in the tanager family Thraupidae that are found in the forests of Central and South America.
==Taxonomy and species list== The genus Heterospingus was introduced in 1898 by the American ornithologist Robert Ridgway with the sulphur-rumped tanager as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek heteros meaning "different" with spingos meaning "finch".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Heterospingus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.