Biology:Phaenicophilus

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Short description: Genus of birds

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

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.

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
DR Black-crowned Palm-tanager2.jpg Phaenicophilus palmarum Black-crowned palm-tanager Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Zoological Illustrations Volume III Plate 174.jpg Phaenicophilus poliocephalus Grey-crowned palm-tanager Haiti and the Dominican Republic

References

  1. "Phaeenacophilidae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=234. 
  2. Strickland, Hugh Edwin (1851). "Ornithological notes". Contributions to Ornithology 3-4: 103-104 [104]. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51979086. 
  3. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 277. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483512. 
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (December 2023). "Caribbean “tanagers”, Wrenthrush, Yellow-breasted Chat". IOC World Bird List Version 14.1. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/enigmas/. 

Wikidata ☰ Q970291 entry