Tooth-billed tanager | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Cardinalidae |
Genus: | Piranga |
Species: | P. lutea
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Binomial name | |
Piranga lutea (
Lesson, 1834)
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The tooth-billed tanager (Piranga lutea) is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae.
There six subspecies of Piranga lutea: [1]
The tooth-billed tanager is sometimes treated as part of a more broadly circumscribed hepatic tanager species, where it makes up the lutea subspecies group (highland hepatic tanager). [2] [3] However, the IOC World Bird List splits these birds into three species, also recognising Piranga hepatica (the hepatic tanager) and Piranga flava (the red tanager). [1]
Tooth-billed tanager | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Cardinalidae |
Genus: | Piranga |
Species: | P. lutea
|
Binomial name | |
Piranga lutea (
Lesson, 1834)
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The tooth-billed tanager (Piranga lutea) is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae.
There six subspecies of Piranga lutea: [1]
The tooth-billed tanager is sometimes treated as part of a more broadly circumscribed hepatic tanager species, where it makes up the lutea subspecies group (highland hepatic tanager). [2] [3] However, the IOC World Bird List splits these birds into three species, also recognising Piranga hepatica (the hepatic tanager) and Piranga flava (the red tanager). [1]