Phoenicircus

Phoenicircus
Guianan red cotinga (Phoenicircus carnifex)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cotingidae
Genus:	Phoenicircus Swainson, 1832
Type species
Lanius carnifex (Guianan red cotinga) Linnaeus, 1758

Phoenicircus is a genus of birds in the family Cotingidae. They have a bright red breast, crown, tail, and rump with the Guianan species having dark brown wings and the black-necked species having black wings. They are frugivores, eating primarily berries and drupes. ^[1]

Taxonomy

The genus Phoenicircus was introduced in 1832 by the English naturalist William Swainson. ^[2] The type species was designated as the Guianan red cotinga by George Robert Gray in 1840. ^{[3] [4]} The name combines the Ancient Greek phoinikeos meaning "crimson" or "dark red" with kerkos meaning "tail". ^[5]

The genus contains the following two species: ^[6]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Phoenicircus carnifex	Guianan red cotinga	Guianas and lower Amazon river valley
	Phoenicircus nigricollis	Black-necked red cotinga	Amazonia

References

1. Trail, Pepper W.; Donahue, Paul (1991). "Notes on the behavior and ecology of the red-cotingas (Contingidae: Phoenicircus)" (PDF). The Wilson Bulletin. 103 (4): 539–768.
2. Swainson, William; Richardson, J. (1831). Fauna Boreali-Americana, or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America. Vol. Part 2. The Birds. London: J. Murray. p. 491. The title page bears the year 1831 but the volume was not published until 1832.
3. Gray, George Robert (1840). A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus. London: R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 33.
4. Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 281.
5. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 303. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2022). "Cotingas, manakins, tityras, becards". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 October 2021.