Loriotus
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Loriotus is a genus of birds in the tanager family Thraupidae. The species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in the genus Tachyphonus.
Loriotus | |
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Flame-crested tanager male | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thraupidae |
Genus: | Loriotus Jarocki, 1821 |
Type species | |
Tanagra cristata Linnaeus, 1766 | |
Species | |
3, see list |
Taxonomy and species list
The three species now assigned to Loriotus were traditionally placed in the genus Tachyphonus. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Tachyphonus was polyphyletic.[1] In the subsequent reorganization the genus Loriotus was resurrected for these three species.[1][2][3] The genus had been introduced in 1821 by the Polish zoologist Feliks Paweł Jarocki with the flame-crested tanager as the type species.[4] The name is derived from the French word loriot that is used for the Old World orioles.[5]
The three species in the genus are:[3]
Male | Female | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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![]() | Flame-crested tanager | Loriotus cristatus | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. | |
Yellow-crested tanager | Loriotus rufiventer | Peru, Acre and northwestern Bolivia | ||
![]() | ![]() | White-shouldered tanager | Loriotus luctuosus | Honduras to Panama, South America south to Ecuador and southern Brazil, and on Trinidad. |
References
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