Orange-throated tanager

Orange-throated tanager
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Wetmorethraupis
Lowery & O'Neill, 1964
Species:
W. sterrhopteron
Binomial name
Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron
Lowery & O'Neill, 1964

The orange-throated tanager (Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron) is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae that is found very locally in humid forests around the Ecuador-Peru border. As a species it is considered threatened. The orange-throated tanager is the only member of the genus Wetmorethraupis, named after the ornithologist Alexander Wetmore. It is closely related to members of the genus Bangsia.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22722621A94775559. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22722621A94775559.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.