Dusky Purpletuft

Dusky Purpletuft
Dusky Purpletuft
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tityridae
Genus: Iodopleura
Species: I. fusca
Binomial name
Iodopleura fusca
(Vieillot, 1817)

The Dusky Purpletuft (Iodopleura fusca) is a small South American species of bird in the Tityridae family. It has traditionally been placed in the cotinga family, but evidence strongly suggest it is better placed in Tityridae,[1] where now placed by SACC. Most of its distribution is in lowland forests in the Guianas, but it also occurs in far southeastern Venezuela, and very locally in northeastern Brazil.

References

  1. ^ Adopt the Family Tityridae - South American Classification Committee (2007)