Phaenicophilus
Appearance
Phaenicophilus | |
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Black-crowned tanager (Phaenicophilus palmarum) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Phaenicophilidae |
Genus: | Phaenicophilus Strickland, 1851 |
Phaenicophilus is a genus of birds that was formerly placed in the family Thraupidae, but is now placed in the Hispaniolan tanager family Phaenicophilidae. Its members are sometimes known as palm-tanagers.
The genus Phaenicophilus was introduced by the English geologist and naturalist Hugh Edwin Strickland in 1851.[1] The type species was subsequently designated as the black-crowned tanager.[2]
The genus contains the following species:[3]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Phaenicophilus palmarum | Black-crowned tanager | Haiti and the Dominican Republic | |
Phaenicophilus poliocephalus | Grey-crowned tanager | Haiti |
References
- ^ Strickland, Hugh Edwin (1851). "Ornithological notes". Contributions to Ornithology. 3–4: 103-104 [104].
- ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. Volume 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 277.
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has extra text (help) - ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Enigmatic Oscines". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 1 May 2018.