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Species of bird

Grey-headed tanager
At Manizales, Caldas, Colombia
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Eucometis
Sclater, PL, 1856
Species: E. penicillata
Binomial name
Eucometis penicillata
(Spix, 1825)

The grey-headed tanager (Eucometis penicillata) is a widely distributed species of small Neotropical bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is the only member of the genus Eucometis.

It is found in Central America and northern South America from Mexico to Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.

Taxonomy

The grey-headed tanager was formally described in 1825 by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix under the binomial name Tanagra penicillata. Spix did not specify a type locality by this was later designated as Fonte Boa in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. The grey-headed tanager is now the only species placed in the genus Eucometis that was introduced by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1856. The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek eukomēs meaning "with lovely hair". The specific epithet penicillata is from the Latin diminutive of peniculus meaning "brush".

Within the Thraupidae, the grey-headed tanager is a member of the subfamily Tachyphoninae and is the sister species to the black-goggled tanager in the monospecific genus Trichothraupis.

Seven subspecies are recognised:

  • E. p. pallida Berlepsch, 1888 – southeast Mexico to Honduras
  • E. p. spodocephalus (Bonaparte, 1853) – Nicaragua and north Costa Rica
  • E. p. stictothorax Berlepsch, 1888 – west-central Costa Rica to west Panama
  • E. p. cristata (Du Bus de Gisignies, 1855) – east Panama, north Colombia and northwest Venezuela
  • E. p. affinis Berlepsch, 1888 – north Venezuela
  • E. p. penicillata (Spix, 1825) – southeast Colombia, east Ecuador and east Peru east through the Guianas and north Brazil
  • E. p. albicollis (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) – Bolivia and Paraguay through central Brazil

References

  1. BirdLife International (2018). "Eucometis penicillata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22722343A132014914. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22722343A132014914.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. von Spix, Johann Baptist (1825). Avium species novae, quas Brasiliam anus MDCCCXVII - MDCCCXX (in Latin). Vol. 2. Monachii : Franc. Seraph. Hübschmanni. pp. 36–37, Plate 49 fig. 1.
  3. ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 383–384.
  4. Sclater, Philip Lutley (1856). "Synopsis Avium Tanagrinarum.– A descriptive catalogue of the known species of Tanagers. Part II". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Part 24 (308): 108–132 .
  5. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  6. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 152, 296. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  7. Burns, K.J.; Shultz, A.J.; Title, P.O.; Mason, N.A.; Barker, F.K.; Klicka, J.; Lanyon, S.M.; Lovette, I.J. (2014). "Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 75: 41–77. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006. PMID 24583021.

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Genera of finches, sparrows and tanagers
Passeroidea
Estrildidae
Amandavinae
Erythrurinae
Estrildinae
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Lonchurinae
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Passeridae
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Prunellidae
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Nine-primaried oscines
Fringillidae
Carduelinae
Euphoniinae
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Emberizoidea
Calcariidae
Calyptophilidae
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Icteriidae
Mitrospingidae
Nesospingidae
Parulidae
Passerellidae
Phaenicophilidae
Rhodinocichlidae
Spindalidae
Teretistridae
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Icteridae
incertae sedis
Agelaiinae
Amblycercinae
Cassicinae
Dolichonychinae
Icterinae
Sturnellinae
Xanthocephalinae
Thraupidae
Catamblyrhynchinae
Charitospizinae
Coerebinae
Dacninae
Diglossinae
Emberizoidinae
Hemithraupinae
Nemosiinae
Orchesticinae
Poospizinae
Porphyrospizinae
Saltatorinae
Sporophilinae
Tachyphoninae
Thraupinae
Taxon identifiers
Eucometis penicillata


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