''Lanio'' is the
genus of shrike-tanagers in the family
Thraupidae.
The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist
Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the
fulvous shrike-tanager
The fulvous shrike-tanager (''Lanio fulvus'') is a South American bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.
It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropica ...
(''Lanio fulvus'') as the
type species. The genus name is derived from the
shrike
Shrikes () are passerine birds of the family Laniidae. The family is composed of 34 species in four genera.
The family name, and that of the largest genus, ''Lanius'', is derived from the Latin word for "butcher", and some shrikes are also know ...
genus ''
Lanius'' that was introduced by the Swedish naturalist
Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the
tenth edition of his ''
Systema Naturae
' (originally in Latin written ' with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy. Although the system, now known as binomial nomen ...
''.
Species list
The genus contains four species:
References
Bird genera
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