Silvery-breasted Tanager

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Silvery-breasted Tanager
Conservation status
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).

References

  • Baillie, J.E.M.; Hilton-Taylor, C. & Stuart, S.N. (eds.) (2004): 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. A Global Species Assessment. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. ISBN 2-8317-0826-5
  • BirdLife International (2004). Tangara cyanomelas. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 27 July 2007.


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