Tachyphonus

Tachyphonus
male
female both t. rufus, Trinidad
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Tachyphonus Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Tanagra rufa Boddaert, 1783
Species
See list

Tachyphonus is a genus of birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the white-lined tanager as the type species. ^{[1] [2]} The name combines the Ancient Greek words takhus "fast" and phōneō "to speak". ^[3]

Taxonomy

A molecular phylogenetic study of the tanager family published in 2014 indicated that the genus as defined here is polyphyletic and paraphyletic relative to Lanio and Rhodospingus . ^{[4] [5] [6]}

The genus includes 5 species: ^[4]

Genus Tachyphonus – Vieillot, 1816 – five species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Fulvous-crested tanager Male Female	Tachyphonus surinamus (Linnaeus, 1766)	Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Tawny-crested tanager Male	Tachyphonus delatrii Lafresnaye, 1847	Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Ruby-crowned tanager Male Female	Tachyphonus coronatus (Vieillot, 1822)	southern areas of Brazil and the Atlantic Forest.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
White-lined tanager Male Female	Tachyphonus rufus (Boddaert, 1783)	Costa Rica south to northern Argentina, and on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Red-shouldered tanager Male Female	Tachyphonus phoenicius Swainson, 1838	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

References

1. Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 33.
2. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 288.
3. Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Tanagers and allies". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
5. Burns, K.J.; Shultz, A.J.; Title, P.O.; Mason, N.A.; Barker, F.K.; Klicka, J.; Lanyon, S.M.; Lovette, I.J. (2014). "Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 75: 41–77. Bibcode:2014MolPE..75...41B. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006. PMID   24583021.
6. Burns, K.J.; Unitt, P.; Mason, N.A. (2016). "A genus-level classification of the family Thraupidae (Class Aves: Order Passeriformes)". Zootaxa. 4088 (3): 329–354. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4088.3.2. PMID   27394344.