| Santa Marta Mountain-tanager | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Anisognathus |
| Species: | A. melanogenys |
| Binomial name | |
| Anisognathus melanogenys (Salvin & Godman, 1880) |
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The Santa Marta Mountain-tanager (Anisognathus melanogenys), also known as the Black-cheeked Mountain-tanager, is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is endemic to highland forest in the Santa Marta Mountains in Colombia. It is closely related to the widespread Lacrimose Mountain-tanager, but the distributions of the two do not overlap.