Tachyphonus

Tachyphonus is a genus of birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Tachyphonus
male
female both t. rufus, Trinidad
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Tachyphonus Vieillot, 1816
Species
5, see list

The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the white-lined tanager as the type species.[1][2] The name combines the Ancient Greek words takhus "fast" and phōneō "to speak".[3]

The genus includes 5 species:[4]

• Fulvous-crested tanager, Tachyphonus surinamus
• Tawny-crested tanager, Tachyphonus delatrii
• Ruby-crowned tanager, Tachyphonus coronatus
• White-lined tanager, Tachyphonus rufus
• Red-shouldered tanager, Tachyphonus phoenicius

References

1. Vieillot, Louis Jean Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Elementaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 33.
2. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 288.
3. Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Tanagers and allies". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 April 2018.