| Masked mountain tanager | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Tephrophilus R. T. Moore, 1934 |
| Species: | T. wetmorei
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| Binomial name | |
| Tephrophilus wetmorei R. T. Moore, 1934
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The masked mountain tanager (Tephrophilus wetmorei) is a vulnerable species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is the only member of the genus Tephrophilus. This large and colourful tanager is endemic to elfin forest, woodland and shrub in the Andean highlands of southern Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru. It is generally rare or uncommon, and is threatened by habitat loss.
- ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Tephrophilus wetmorei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22722616A132155834. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22722616A132155834.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.