Loriotus is a genus of birds in the tanager family Thraupidae. The species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in the genus Tachyphonus.
| Loriotus | |
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| Flame-crested tanager male | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Loriotus Jarocki, 1821 |
| Type species | |
| Tanagra cristata Linnaeus, 1766
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| Species | |
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3, see list | |
Taxonomy and species list
editThe three species now assigned to Loriotus were traditionally placed in the genus Tachyphonus. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Tachyphonus was polyphyletic.[1] In the subsequent reorganization the genus Loriotus was resurrected for these three species.[1][2][3] The genus had been introduced in 1821 by the Polish zoologist Feliks Paweł Jarocki with the flame-crested tanager as the type species.[4] The name is derived from the French word loriot that is used for the Old World orioles.[5]
The three species in the genus are:[3]
| Male | Female | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Flame-crested tanager | Loriotus cristatus | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. |
| Yellow-crested tanager | Loriotus rufiventer | Peru, Acre and northwestern Bolivia | ||
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White-shouldered tanager | Loriotus luctuosus | Honduras to Panama, South America south to Ecuador and southern Brazil, and on Trinidad. |
References
edit- ^ a b Burns, K.J.; Shultz, A.J.; Title, P.O.; Mason, N.A.; Barker, F.K.; Klicka, J.; Lanyon, S.M.; Lovette, I.J. (2014). "Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 75: 41–77. Bibcode:2014MolPE..75...41B. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006. PMID 24583021.
- ^ Piacentini, V.Q.; Unitt, P.; Burns, K.J. (2019). "Two overlooked generic synonyms in the Thraupidae (Aves: Passeriformes)". Zootaxa. 4608 (3): 593–594. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4608.3.13. PMID 31717142. S2CID 182822735.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ^ Jarocki, Feliks Paweł (1821). Zoologiia czyli zwiérzetopismo ogólne podlug náynowszego systematu ułożone (in Polish). Vol. 2. Warszawa: w Drukarni Łątkiewicza. p. 133. Link is to the book not the page.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 231. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
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