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Anisognathus

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Anisognathus is a genus of boldly colored tanagers found in the highland forests and woodlands of South America.

The genus Anisognathus was introduced in 1850 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach.^[1] The type species was subsequently designated as the scarlet-bellied mountain tanager by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte.^[2]^[3] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek anisos meaning "unequal" and gnathos meaning "lower jaw".^[4] Five species are placed in this genus.^[5]

^ Reichenbach, Ludwig (1850). Avium Systema Naturale (in German). Vol. 1. Dresden and Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister. Plate LXXVII. For the publication date see: Dickinson, E.C.; Overstreet, L.K.; Dowsett, R.J.; Bruce, M.D. (2011). Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers. Northampton, UK: Aves Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-9568611-1-5.
^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1851). "Note sur les Tangaras, leurs affinités, et descriptions d'espèces nouvelles". Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée. 2nd series (in French). 3: 129–145, 168–179 [172].
^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 331.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 November 2020.

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