Diademed tanager
Diademed tanager | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thraupidae |
Genus: | Stephanophorus Strickland, 1841 |
Species: | Stephanophorus
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Binomial name | |
Stephanophorus (Temminck, 1823)
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Stephanophorus is a monotypic genus of tanager, containing only the diademed tanager, Stephanophorus diadematus .
It is purple-blue with a white crown characterised by a small red patch, and it is found mostly in open areas in southern Brazil, northeast Argentina, and Uruguay.