Parlotero Culiamarillo/Fulvous-crested Tanager/Tachyphonus surinamus

Nombre en español: Parlotero Culiamarillo

Nombre en inglés: Fulvous-crested Tanager

Nombre científico: Tachyphonus surinamus

Familia: Thraupidae

Canto: Andrew Spencer

Tachyphonus surinamus es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia de las tangaras (Thraupidae). Se distribuye por la cuenca amazónica: Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guayana Francesa, Guyana, Perú, Surinam y Venezuela. Habita en el sotobosque de la selva tropical.

Taxonomía

Tiene descritas cuatro subespecies:

T. s. surinamus (Linnaeus, 1766) – Este y sur de Venezuela, las Guayanas, y el norte brasileño del Amazonas.
T. s. brevipes (Lafresnaye, 1846) – Este de Colombia, sur de Venezuela, noroeste de Brasil, este de Ecuador y noreste de Perú.
T. s. napensis (Lawrence, 1864) – Este de Perú y noroeste de Brasil.
T. s. insignis (Hellmayr, 1906) – Norte de Brasil, al sur del Amazonas.

Descripción

Es un pájaro pequeño, mide entre 15,5 y 16 cm. Es una especie con un fuerte dimorfismo sexual: el macho es negro con una mancha rojiza poco visible en la cabeza, con el obispillo naranja y con una lista blanca en el ala; la hembra es de color oliváceo por arriba, por debajo de tonos amarillentos, más fuertes en el vientre, y con la cabeza grisácea.

Fulvous-crested tanager

The fulvous-crested tanager (Tachyphonus surinamus) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers.

It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

The fulvous-crested tanager is found in the entire Amazon Basin, but only the downstream third of the southern half, in the southeast and southwest. The species ranges into the Guianas in the northeast, and the Orinoco River drainage of Venezuela in the northwest; for its range limit, it is not found in the western or northern regions of the Orinoco drainage.

Taxonomy

In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the fulvous-crested tanager in the supplement to his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected Suriname. He used the French name Le merle de Surinam and the Latin name Merula surinamensis.^[2] Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson in his Ornithologie. One of these was the fulvous-crested tanager. Linnaeus included a terse description, coined the binomial name Turdus surinamus and cited Brisson’s work. The present genus Tachyphonus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816.^[5] There are four subspecies.