Blue-backed tanager
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{{speciesbox
| name = Blue-backed tanager
| image = Cyanicterus cyanicterus - Blue-backed Tanager (female); Ramal do Pau Rosa, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.jpg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Cyanicterus
| parent_authority = Bonaparte, 1850
| species = cyanicterus
| authority = (Vieillot, 1819)
| synonyms = Pyranga cyanicterus (protonym)
| range_map = Cyanicterus cyanicterus map.svg
}}
The blue-backed tanager (Cyanicterus cyanicterus) is a species of South American bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is the only member of the genus Cyanicterus.
It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Taxonomy
The blue-backed tanager was formally described in 1819 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot under the binomial name Pyranga cyanicterus.{{ cite book | last=Vieillot | first=Louis Pierre | author-link=Louis Pierre Vieillot | year=1819 | title=Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. | volume=28 | place=Paris | publisher=Deterville |page=290 | doi=10.5962/bhl.title.20211 | language=French | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19430255 }} The type locality is Cayenne in French Guiana.{{ cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1970 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=13 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=326 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483561 }} This species is now the only member of the genus Cyanicterus that was introduced by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1850.{{cite book | last=Bonaparte | first=Charles Lucien | author-link=Charles Lucien Bonaparte | year=1850 | title=Conspectus Generum Avium | volume=1 | language=Latin | publisher=E.J. Brill | place=Leiden | page=240 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43560365 }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2020 | title=Tanagers and allies | work=IOC World Bird List Version 10.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/tanagers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=22 November 2020 }} The word cyanicterus is formed from the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "dark-blue" and ikteros meaning "jaundice-yellow".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=126 }} The blue-backed tanager is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
References
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Category:Birds of the Guiana Shield
Category:Taxa named by Louis Pierre Vieillot
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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