Tachyphonus

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Tachyphonus
White-lined tanager (Tachyphonus rufus) male.jpg
male
White-lined tanager (Tachyphonus rufus) female.jpg
female
both t. rufus, Trinidad
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Tachyphonus
Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Tanagra rufa
Boddaert, 1783
Species

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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]

MaleFemaleCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Tachyphonus surinamus - Fulvous-crested Tanager (male) ; Ramal do Pau Rosa, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.jpg Tachyphonus surinamus female ecuador.jpg Fulvous-crested tanager Tachyphonus surinamusBrazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Tachyphonus delatrii -Costa Rica-6.jpg Tawny-crested tanager Tachyphonus delatriiColombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.
Tachyphonus coronatus -Vale do Ribeira, Sao Paulo, Registro, Brasil -male-8.jpg Tachyphonus coronatus female.jpg Ruby-crowned tanager Tachyphonus coronatussouthern areas of Brazil and the Atlantic Forest.
Tachyphonus rufus - 2009-02-08.jpg Tachyphonus rufus-20090405.jpg White-lined tanager Tachyphonus rufusCosta Rica south to northern Argentina, and on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago
Red-shouldered Tanager.jpg Red-shouldered tanager Tachyphonus phoeniciusBolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

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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. 1 2 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.