Lanio | |
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White-throated shrike-tanager, Lanio leucothorax | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thraupidae |
Genus: |
Lanio Vieillot, 1816 |
Type species | |
Tangara fulva
Boddaert, 1783
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Species | |
Lanio aurantius |
Lanio is the genus of shrike-tanagers in the family Thraupidae.
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]
The genus contains four species: [4]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Lanio fulvus | Fulvous shrike-tanager | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela |
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Lanio versicolor | White-winged shrike-tanager | Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru |
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Lanio aurantius | Black-throated shrike-tanager | Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. |
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Lanio leucothorax | White-throated shrike-tanager | Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama |
Lanio | |
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White-throated shrike-tanager, Lanio leucothorax | |
Scientific classification
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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 is the genus of shrike-tanagers in the family Thraupidae.
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]
The genus contains four species: [4]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Lanio fulvus | Fulvous shrike-tanager | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela |
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Lanio versicolor | White-winged shrike-tanager | Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru |
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Lanio aurantius | Black-throated shrike-tanager | Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. |
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Lanio leucothorax | White-throated shrike-tanager | Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama |