Dacnis

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Dacnis
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Blue dacnis (Dacnis cayana)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Dacnis
Cuvier, 1816
Type species
Motacilla cayana
Linnaeus, 1766
Species

10, see text

Synonyms

Pseudodacnis Sclater, PL, 1886

Dacnis is a genus of Neotropical birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

These are highly sexually dichromatic species with bright blue males and green females. They have various bill types and many of them feed on nectar. [1]

Taxonomy and species list

The genus Dacnis was introduced in 1816 by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier with the blue dacnis as the type species. [2] [3] The name is from the Ancient Greek daknis, an unidentified bird from Egypt listed by Hesychius of Alexandria and Sextus Pompeius Festus. [4] This genus is placed together with the genera Tesina and Cyanerpes in the subfamily Dacninae. [1]

The genus contains ten species: [5]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Dacnis berlepschi Scarlet-breasted dacnis Colombia and Ecuador
Dacnis venusta -Panama-8a (cropped).jpg Dacnis venusta Scarlet-thighed dacnis Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and Panama.
Dacnis cayana -Vale do Ribeira, Registro, Sao Paulo, Brasil-8.jpg Dacnis cayana Blue dacnis Nicaragua to Panama, on Trinidad, and in South America south to Bolivia and northern Argentina
Dacnis flaviventer, Yellow-bellied Dacnis (cropped).jpg Dacnis flaviventer Yellow-bellied dacnis Amazonian regions of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil; also the eastern Orinoco River region of Venezuela.
Dacnis hartlaubi - Turquoise Dacnis (cropped).jpg Dacnis hartlaubi Turquoise dacnis Colombia.
Black-faced Dacnis (Dacnis lineata).jpg Dacnis lineata Black-faced dacnis Amazon and the Chocó-Magdalena.
Yellow-tufted Dacnis (Dacnis egregia) - South Ecuador.jpg Dacnis egregia Yellow-tufted dacnis Colombia and Ecuador
Dacnis viguieri Viridian dacnis Colombia and Panama.
Dacnis nigripes -Vale do Ribeira, Juquia, Sao Paulo, Brasil -female-8.jpg Dacnis nigripes Black-legged dacnis Brazil.
Dacnis albiventris - White-bellied dacnis, male; Beruri, Amazonas, Brazil (cropped).jpg Dacnis albiventris White-bellied dacnis Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

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References

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