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 Brazil.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest. When it was still considered a good species, it was listed as Least Concern by the IUCN^[1].

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ E.g. Baillie et al. (2004).

[edit] 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. Retrieved on 27 July 2007.