Tachyphonus

Tachyphonus
File:White-lined tanager (Tachyphonus rufus) male.jpg
male
File:White-lined tanager (Tachyphonus rufus) female.jpg
female both t. rufus, Trinidad
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Tachyphonus Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Tanagra rufa Boddaert, 1783
Species
See list

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

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

Taxonomy

A molecular phylogenetic study of the tanager family published in 2014 indicated that the genus as defined here is polyphyletic and paraphyletic relative to Lanio and Rhodospingus.

The genus includes 5 species:

Genus Tachyphonus – Vieillot, 1816 – five species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Fulvous-crested tanager File:Tachyphonus surinamus - Fulvous-crested Tanager (male) ; Ramal do Pau Rosa, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.jpg Male {{{image2-alt}}} Female	Tachyphonus surinamus (Linnaeus, 1766)	Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Tawny-crested tanager File:Tachyphonus delatrii -Costa Rica-6.jpg Male	Tachyphonus delatrii Lafresnaye, 1847	Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Ruby-crowned tanager File:Tachyphonus coronatus -Vale do Ribeira, Sao Paulo, Registro, Brasil -male-8.jpg Male {{{image2-alt}}} Female	Tachyphonus coronatus (Vieillot, 1822)	southern areas of Brazil and the Atlantic Forest. Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
White-lined tanager File:Tachyphonus rufus - 2009-02-08.jpg Male {{{image2-alt}}} Female	Tachyphonus rufus (Boddaert, 1783)	Costa Rica south to northern Argentina, and on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Red-shouldered tanager File:Red-shouldered Tanager.jpg Male {{{image2-alt}}} Female	Tachyphonus phoenicius Swainson, 1838	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC