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Loriotus
Flame-crested tanager male
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Loriotus
Jarocki, 1821
Type species
Tanagra cristata
Linnaeus, 1766
Species

3, see list

Loriotus is a genus of birds in the tanager family Thraupidae. The species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in the genus Tachyphonus.

Taxonomy and species list

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The three species now assigned to Loriotus were traditionally placed in the genus Tachyphonus. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Tachyphonus was polyphyletic.[1] In the subsequent reorganization the genus Loriotus was resurrected for these three species.[1][2][3] The genus had been introduced in 1821 by the Polish zoologist Feliks Paweł Jarocki with the flame-crested tanager as the type species.[4] The name is derived from the French word loriot that is used for the Old World orioles.[5]

The three species in the genus are:[3]

Male Female Common name Scientific name Distribution
Flame-crested tanager Loriotus cristatus Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Yellow-crested tanager Loriotus rufiventer Peru, Acre and northwestern Bolivia
White-shouldered tanager Loriotus luctuosus Honduras to Panama, South America south to Ecuador and southern Brazil, and on Trinidad.

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