Phaenicophilus

Phaenicophilus
Black-crowned tanager (Phaenicophilus palmarum)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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 Greater Antillean tanager family Phaenicophilidae.[2] Its members are known as palm-tanagers.

The genus Phaenicophilus was introduced by the English geologist and naturalist Hugh Edwin Strickland in 1851.[3] The type species was subsequently designated as the black-crowned palm-tanager.[4]

The genus contains the following species:[5]

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Phaenicophilus palmarumBlack-crowned palm-tanagerHaiti and the Dominican Republic
Phaenicophilus poliocephalusGrey-crowned palm-tanagerHaiti and the Dominican Republic

References

  1. ↑ "Phaeenacophilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. ↑ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 277.
  3. ↑ Strickland, Hugh Edwin (1851). "Ornithological notes". Contributions to Ornithology. 3–4: 103–104 [104].
  4. ↑ Clements, J; Schulenberg, T; Iliff, M; Roberson, D; Fredericks, T; Sullivan, B; Wood, C (2025). "The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2025". The Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 14 Jul 2026.
  5. ↑ 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. Retrieved 22 January 2024.