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Ixothraupis
'' Ixothraupis'' is a genus of Neotropical birds in the tanager family Thraupidae. Taxonomy and species list These species were formerly placed in the genus '' Tangara''. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that ''Tangara'' was polyphyletic. In the rearrangement to create monophyletic genera, the genus ''Ixothraupis'' was resurrected. It had been introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1851 with the spotted tanager as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek ''ixos'' meaning "mistletoe" with "thraupis", an unknown small bird. The genus contains five species: * Dotted tanager The dotted tanager (''Ixothraupis varia'') is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest A forest is a ..., ''Ixothraupis varia'' * Rufous-throated tanager, ''Ixothraupis rufigula'' * Spotted tanager, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ixothraupis
'' Ixothraupis'' is a genus of Neotropical birds in the tanager family Thraupidae. Taxonomy and species list These species were formerly placed in the genus '' Tangara''. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that ''Tangara'' was polyphyletic. In the rearrangement to create monophyletic genera, the genus ''Ixothraupis'' was resurrected. It had been introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1851 with the spotted tanager as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek ''ixos'' meaning "mistletoe" with "thraupis", an unknown small bird. The genus contains five species: * Dotted tanager The dotted tanager (''Ixothraupis varia'') is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest A forest is a ..., ''Ixothraupis varia'' * Rufous-throated tanager, ''Ixothraupis rufigula'' * Spotted tanager, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thraupidae
The tanagers (singular ) comprise the bird family Thraupidae, in the order Passeriformes. The family has a Neotropical distribution and is the second-largest family of birds. It represents about 4% of all avian species and 12% of the Neotropical birds. Traditionally, the family contained around 240 species of mostly brightly colored fruit-eating birds. As more of these birds were studied using modern molecular techniques, it became apparent that the traditional families were not monophyletic. ''Euphonia'' and ''Chlorophonia'', which were once considered part of the tanager family, are now treated as members of the Fringillidae, in their own subfamily (Euphoniinae). Likewise, the genera ''Piranga'' (which includes the scarlet tanager, summer tanager, and western tanager), '' Chlorothraupis'', and '' Habia'' appear to be members of the cardinal family, and have been reassigned to that family by the American Ornithological Society. Description Tanagers are small to medium-sized b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spotted Tanager
The spotted tanager (''Ixothraupis punctata'') is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Taxonomy In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the spotted tanager in his ''Ornithologie'' based on a specimen collected in the West Indies. He used the French name ''Le tangara verd piqueté des Indes '' and the Latin name ''Tangara viridis indica punctulata''. The two stars (**) at the start of the paragraph indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his ''Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speckled Tanager
The speckled tanager (''Ixothraupis guttata'') is a medium-sized passerine bird. It is a resident breeder in Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname and the extreme north of Brazil. There are also sight records from French Guiana. It is probably a close relative of the spotted tanager (''I. punctata'') which replaces it to the south. These two species are generally presumably to be fully allopatric, but may actually be parapatric: in 1998 a speckled tanager was found in the Serranía de los Churumbelos (Colombia), just about north of where spotted tanagers are known to occur.Salaman ''et al.'' (2002) Adult speckled tanagers are long and weigh . The upperparts are green with black spotting, and the face is yellow with a black line from the eye to the gape. The wings and tail are black edged with green, and the underparts are white spotted with black. The sexes are similar. The speckled tanager's flight call is a weak metallic chirping ''tsip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spotted Tanager
The spotted tanager (''Ixothraupis punctata'') is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Taxonomy In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the spotted tanager in his ''Ornithologie'' based on a specimen collected in the West Indies. He used the French name ''Le tangara verd piqueté des Indes '' and the Latin name ''Tangara viridis indica punctulata''. The two stars (**) at the start of the paragraph indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his ''Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rufous-throated Tanager
The rufous-throated tanager (''Ixothraupis rufigula'') is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ... and Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest. References rufous-throated tanager Birds of the Colombian Andes Birds of the Ecuadorian Andes rufous-throated tanager rufous-throated tanager Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Thraupidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellow-bellied Tanager
The yellow-bellied tanager (''Ixothraupis xanthogastra'') is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in the Amazon Basin The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about , or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries of Bolivi ...'s western half. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. References yellow-bellied tanager Birds of the Amazon rainforest Birds of the Colombian Amazon Birds of the Venezuelan Amazon Birds of the Ecuadorian Amazon Birds of Peruvian Amazonia Birds of the Bolivian Amazon yellow-bellied tanager yellow-bellied tanager Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Thraupidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dotted Tanager
The dotted tanager (''Ixothraupis varia'') is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' ...s and heavily degraded former forest. References dotted tanager Birds of the Amazon rainforest Birds of the Venezuelan Amazon dotted tanager Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Thraupidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tangara (genus)
''Tangara '' is a large genus of birds of the tanager family. It includes 27 species. All are from the Neotropics, and while most are fairly widespread, some have small distributions and are threatened. They are fairly small, ranging in size from . This genus includes some of the most spectacularly colored birds of the world. Taxonomy and species list The genus ''Tangara'' was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the paradise tanager (''Tangara chilensis'') as the type species. The name means "dancer" in the extinct Tupi language. The genus formerly included additional species. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that many of the members of ''Thraupis'' was embedded within ''Tangara''. In the reorganization to create monophyletic genera, rather than merging ''Thraupis'' into ''Tangara'' to create an unusually large genus with around 58 species, taxonomists chose to split off species from ''Tangara'' into four other genera. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic period (), and the Classical period (). Ancient Greek was the language of Homer and of fifth-century Athenian historians, playwrights, and philosophers. It has contributed many words to English vocabulary and has been a standard subject of study in educational institutions of the Western world since the Renaissance. This article primarily contains information about the Epic and Classical periods of the language. From the Hellenistic period (), Ancient Greek was followed by Koine Greek, which is regarded as a separate historical stage, although its earliest form closely resembles Attic Greek and its latest form approaches Medieval Greek. There were several regional dialects of Ancient Greek, of which Attic Greek developed into Koine. Dia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polyphyletic
A polyphyletic group is an assemblage of organisms or other evolving elements that is of mixed evolutionary origin. The term is often applied to groups that share similar features known as homoplasies, which are explained as a result of convergent evolution. The arrangement of the members of a polyphyletic group is called a polyphyly .. ource for pronunciation./ref> It is contrasted with monophyly and paraphyly. For example, the biological characteristic of warm-bloodedness evolved separately in the ancestors of mammals and the ancestors of birds; "warm-blooded animals" is therefore a polyphyletic grouping. Other examples of polyphyletic groups are algae, C4 photosynthetic plants, and edentates. Many taxonomists aim to avoid homoplasies in grouping taxa together, with a goal to identify and eliminate groups that are found to be polyphyletic. This is often the stimulus for major revisions of the classification schemes. Researchers concerned more with ecology than with systema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type Species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen(s). Article 67.1 A similar concept is used for suprageneric groups and called a type genus. In botanical nomenclature, these terms have no formal standing under the code of nomenclature, but are sometimes borrowed from zoological nomenclature. In botany, the type of a genus name is a specimen (or, rarely, an illustration) which is also the type of a species name. The species name that has that type can also be referred to as the type of the genus name. Names of genus and family ranks, the various subdivisions of those ranks, and some higher-rank names based on genus names, have such types. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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