Lanio | |
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White-throated shrike-tanager, Lanio leucothorax | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thraupidae |
Genus: | Lanio Vieillot, 1816 |
Type species | |
Tangara fulva Boddaert, 1783 | |
Species | |
Lanio aurantius |
Lanio is the genus of shrike-tanagers in the family Thraupidae.
The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the fulvous shrike-tanager (Lanio fulvus) as the type species. [1] [2] The genus name is derived from the shrike genus Lanius that was introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae . [3]
The genus contains four species: [4]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Fulvous shrike-tanager | Lanio fulvus (Boddaert, 1783) | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela![]() | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
White-winged shrike-tanager | Lanio versicolor (D'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) | Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru![]() | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
Black-throated shrike-tanager | Lanio aurantius Lafresnaye, 1846 | Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.![]() | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
White-throated shrike-tanager | Lanio leucothorax Salvin, 1865 | Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama![]() | Size: Habitat: Diet: | NT |