Species profile
Icterus violaceus
Icterus violaceus
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 128345, female, collected at Urucum, 19.09 S, 57.38 W (Paynter and Traylor, 1991), near Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, on 12 December 1913, by George K. Cherrie (no. 17389) on the Roosevelt Rondon Expedition.
- Scientific name
- Icterus violaceus
- Family
- Icteridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Icterus
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