Dacnis
| Dacnis | |
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| Blue dacnis (Dacnis cayana) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Dacnis Cuvier, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Motacilla cayana Linnaeus, 1766
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| Species | |
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10, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pseudodacnis Sclater, PL, 1886 | |
Dacnis is a genus of Neotropical birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.
These are highly sexually dichromatic species with bright blue males and green females. They have various bill types and many of them feed on nectar.[1]
Taxonomy and species list
[edit]The genus Dacnis was introduced in 1816 by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier with the blue dacnis as the type species.[2][3] The name is from the Ancient Greek daknis, an unidentified bird from Egypt listed by Hesychius of Alexandria and Sextus Pompeius Festus.[4] This genus is placed together with the genera Tesina and Cyanerpes in the subfamily Dacninae.[1]
The genus contains ten species:[5]
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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| Dacnis berlepschi | Scarlet-breasted dacnis | Colombia and Ecuador | |
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Dacnis venusta | Scarlet-thighed dacnis | Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and Panama. |
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Dacnis cayana | Blue dacnis | Nicaragua to Panama, on Trinidad, and in South America south to Bolivia and northern Argentina |
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Dacnis flaviventer | Yellow-bellied dacnis | Amazonian regions of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil; also the eastern Orinoco River region of Venezuela. |
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Dacnis hartlaubi | Turquoise dacnis | Colombia. |
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Dacnis lineata | Black-faced dacnis | Amazon and the Chocó-Magdalena. |
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Dacnis egregia | Yellow-tufted dacnis | Colombia and Ecuador |
| Dacnis viguieri | Viridian dacnis | Colombia and Panama. | |
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Dacnis nigripes | Black-legged dacnis | Brazil. |
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Dacnis albiventris | White-bellied dacnis | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. |
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.
- ^ Cuvier, Georges (1816). Le Règne animal distribué d'après son organisation : pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Déterville. p. 395.
- ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 387.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 130. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
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