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Diademed tanager

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Diademed tanager
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Stephanophorus
Strickland, 1841
Species:
Stephanophorus
Binomial name
Stephanophorus
(Temminck, 1823)

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.

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