Tachyphonus

Tachyphonus is a genus of birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Tachyphonus
male
female both t. rufus, Trinidad
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Tachyphonus Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Tanagra rufa Boddaert, 1783
Species
See list

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]

Genus Tachyphonus – Vieillot, 1816 – five species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Fulvous-crested tanager Male Female	Tachyphonus surinamus (Linnaeus, 1766)	Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Tawny-crested tanager Male	Tachyphonus delatrii Lafresnaye, 1847	Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Ruby-crowned tanager Male Female	Tachyphonus coronatus (Vieillot, 1822)	southern areas of Brazil and the Atlantic Forest.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
White-lined tanager Male Female	Tachyphonus rufus (Boddaert, 1783)	Costa Rica south to northern Argentina, and on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Red-shouldered tanager Male Female	Tachyphonus phoenicius Swainson, 1838	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC