Silvery-breasted tanager

Silvery-breasted tanager
Not recognized (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Tangara
Species: T. velia
Subspecies: T. v. cyanomelas
Trinomial name
Tangara velia cyanomelas
Wied, 1830
Synonyms

Tangara cyanomelas

The silvery-breasted tanager (Tangara velia cyanomelas) is a subspecies of the opal-rumped tanager but sometimes considered a distinct species Tangara cyanomelas. It is endemic to Atlantic Forest in south-eastern Brazil.

When it was still considered a good species, it was listed as Least Concern by the IUCN.[1]

Footnotes

  1. E.g. Baillie et al. (2004).

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