Yellow-green tanager

The yellow-green tanager (Bangsia flavovirens) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.[1][2] It is also known as the yellow-green bush tanager as it was formerly place in the genus Chlorospingus with other bush tanagers. The whole genus was moved to the New World sparrow family Passerellidae when bush tanagers were found to be more closely related to the genus Arremonops. However, recent molecular analysis has discovered that this species is neither a bush tanager or sparrow and the species returned to Thraupidae and placed in the genus Bangsia.[3] It is found in Colombia and Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is threatened by habitat loss[1]

Yellow-green tanager
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Bangsia
Species:
B. flavovirens
Binomial name
Bangsia flavovirens
(Lawrence, 1867)
Synonyms

Chlorospingus flavovirens

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Bangsia flavovirens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P. (eds.). "Family Thraupidae". IOC World Bird List. International Ornithological Congress. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  3. Avendaño, Jorge; Barker, F. Keith; Cadena, Carlos (2016). "The Yellow-green Bush-tanager is neither a bush-tanager nor a sparrow: Molecular phylogenetics reveals that Chlorospingus flavovirens is a tanager (Aves: Passeriformes; Thraupidae)". Zootaxa. 4136 (2). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4136.2.7.
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