Tooth-billed tanager


The tooth-billed tanager is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae.

Taxonomy

There six subspecies of Piranga lutea:
  • Piranga lutea testacea
  • Piranga lutea faceta
  • Piranga lutea haemalea
  • Piranga lutea toddi
  • Piranga lutea desidiosa
  • Piranga lutea lutea
The tooth-billed tanager is sometimes treated as part of a more broadly circumscribed hepatic tanager species, where it makes up the lutea subspecies group. However, the IOC World Bird List splits these birds into three species, also recognising Piranga hepatica and Piranga flava.