Phaenicophilus

This article is about the Hispaniola-endemic genus Phaenicophilus, the members of which are sometimes known as palm tanagers or palm-tanagers. For the widespread Central and South American species of tanager with a similar name, see palm tanager.

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 known as palm-tanagers.

Phaenicophilus
Black-crowned tanager (Phaenicophilus palmarum)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Phaenicophilidae
Genus:	Phaenicophilus Strickland, 1851
Type species
Turdus palmarum[1] Linnaeus, 1766

The genus Phaenicophilus was introduced by the English geologist and naturalist Hugh Edwin Strickland in 1851.^[2] The type species was subsequently designated as the black-crowned palm-tanager.^[3]

The genus contains the following species:^[4]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Phaenicophilus palmarum	Black-crowned palm-tanager	Haiti and the Dominican Republic
	Phaenicophilus poliocephalus	Grey-crowned palm-tanager	Haiti and the Dominican Republic