Red tanager
Species of bird
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The red tanager (Piranga flava) is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cardinalidae |
| Genus: | Piranga |
| Species: | P. flava |
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| Piranga flava (Vieillot, 1822) | |
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Taxonomy
There four subspecies of Piranga flava:[2]
- Piranga flava macconnelli C. Chubb, 1921 (southern Guyana, southern Suriname and northern Brazil)
- Piranga flava rosacea Todd, 1922 (eastern Bolivia)
- Piranga flava saira (von Spix, 1825) (eastern and southern Brazil)
- Piranga flava flava (Vieillot, 1822) (southeastern Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina and Uruguay)
The red tanager is sometimes treated as part of a more broadly circumscribed hepatic tanager species, where it makes up the flava subspecies group (lowland hepatic tanager).[3][4] However, the IOC World Bird List splits these birds into three species, also recognising Piranga hepatica (the hepatic tanager) and Piranga lutea (the tooth-billed tanager).[2]