Phaenicophilus

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This article is about the Hispaniola-endemic genus Phaenicophilus, the members of which are sometimes known as palm tanagers or palm-tanagers. For the widespread Central and South American species of tanager with a similar name, see palm tanager.

Phaenicophilus
Black-crowned Palm Warbler.jpg
Black-crowned tanager (Phaenicophilus palmarum)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Phaenicophilidae
Genus: Phaenicophilus
Strickland, 1851

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 sometimes known as palm-tanagers.

The genus Phaenicophilus was introduced by the English geologist and naturalist Hugh Edwin Strickland in 1851.[1] The type species was subsequently designated as the black-crowned tanager.[2]

The genus contains the following species:[3]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
DR Black-crowned Palm-tanager2.jpg Phaenicophilus palmarum Black-crowned tanager Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Phaenicophilus poliocephalus Grey-crowned tanager Haiti

References[]

  1. ^ Strickland, Hugh Edwin (1851). "Ornithological notes". Contributions to Ornithology. 3–4: 103-104 [104].
  2. ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 277. |volume= has extra text (help)
  3. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Enigmatic Oscines". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
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