Biology:Nemosia

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Nemosia is a genus of South American birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the hooded tanager as the type species.[1][2] The name Nemosia is from the Ancient Greek nemos meaning "glade" or "dell".[3]

Species

The genus contains two species:[4]

Genus Nemosia – Vieillot, 1816 – two species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Hooded tanager

Nemosia pileata
(Boddaert, 1783)

Six subspecies
  • N. p. hypoleuca Todd, 1916
  • N. p. surinamensis Zimmer, JT, 1947
  • N. p. pileata (Boddaert, 1783)
  • N. p. interna Zimmer, JT, 1947
  • N. p. nana von Berlepsch, 1912
  • N. p. caerulea (zu Wied-Neuwied, 1831)
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Cherry-throated tanager

Nemosia rourei
Cabanis, 1870 		Atlantic Forest in Espírito Santo, Brazil
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 CR 


References

  1. ↑ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816) (in French). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire. Paris: Deterville/self. p. 32. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9745205x/f38.image. 
  2. ↑ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 276. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483511. 
  3. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 267. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. https://archive.org/details/helmdictionarysc00jobl_997. 
  4. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2019). "New World warblers, mitrospingid tanagers". International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/warblers/. Retrieved 4 October 2019. 

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