| Puerto Rican tanager | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Superfamily: | Emberizoidea |
| Family: | Nesospingidae Barker, Burns, Klicka, Lanyon, & Lovette, 2013 |
| Genus: | Nesospingus P.L. Sclater, 1885 |
| Species: | N. speculiferus
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| Binomial name | |
| Nesospingus speculiferus (Lawrence, 1875)
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The Puerto Rican tanager (Nesospingus speculiferus) is a small passerine bird endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico. It is the only member of the genus Nesospingus and has historically been placed in the tanager family, but recent studies indicate it as either belonging in its own family Nesospingidae or as being a member of Phaenicophilidae. Its closest relatives are likely the spindalises (family Spindalidae, sometimes also considered a member of the Phaenicophilidae).[2] The Puerto Rican tanager is known to locals as llorosa, which means 'cryer'.
- ^ BirdLife International (2022). "Nesospingus speculiferus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T22722159A209284090. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ Oliveros, C.H.; et al. (2019). "Earth history and the passerine superradiation". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. 116 (16): 7916–7925. doi:10.1073/pnas.1813206116. PMC 6475423. PMID 30936315.