Nemosia

Nemosia is a genus of South American birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Nemosia
Nemosia pileata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Nemosia
Vieillot, 1816
Species
  • Nemosia pileata
  • Nemosia rourei

The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the hooded tanager (Nemosia pileata) as the type species.[1][2] The name Nemosia is from the Ancient Greek nemos meaning "glade" or "dell".[3]

The genus contains two species:[4]

References
  1. Vieillot, Louis Jean Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Elementaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 32.
  2. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 276.
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 267. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "New World warblers, mitrospingid tanagers". IOC World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 October 2019.


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