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Lanio

Lanio is the genus of shrike-tanagers in the family Thraupidae.

Lanio
White-throated shrike-tanager, Lanio leucothorax
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Lanio
Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Tangara fulva
Boddaert, 1783
Species

Lanio aurantius
Lanio fulvus
Lanio leucothorax
Lanio versicolor

The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the fulvous shrike-tanager (Lanio fulvus) as the type species.[1][2] The genus name is derived from the shrike genus Lanius that was introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.[3]

Species list

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The genus contains four species:[4]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
  Lanio fulvus Fulvous shrike-tanager Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
  Lanio versicolor White-winged shrike-tanager Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru
  Lanio aurantius Black-throated shrike-tanager Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.
  Lanio leucothorax White-throated shrike-tanager Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama

References

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  1. ^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 40.
  2. ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 285.
  3. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 219. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "New World warblers, mitrospingid tanagers". IOC World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 October 2019.


 

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