Tachyphonus Explained
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]
The genus includes 5 species:[6]
| Male | Female | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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| | | Tachyphonus surinamus | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. |
| | | Tachyphonus delatrii | Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. |
| | Ruby-crowned tanager | Tachyphonus coronatus | southern areas of Brazil and the Atlantic Forest. |
| | White-lined tanager | Tachyphonus rufus | Costa Rica south to northern Argentina, and on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago |
| | Red-shouldered tanager | Tachyphonus phoenicius | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. |
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Notes and References
- Book: Vieillot, Louis Pierre . Louis Pierre Vieillot . Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire . Deterville/self . 1816 . Paris . 33 . French.
- Book: Paynter . Raymond A. Jr . 1970 . Check-list of Birds of the World . 13 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 288 .
- Web site: Jobling . J.A. . 2018 . Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions . 2 April 2018 .
- 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 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006 . 24583021 . 2014MolPE..75...41B .
- 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 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4088.3.2 . 27394344 .
- Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2018 . Tanagers and allies . World Bird List Version 8.1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 2 April 2018 .
