''Phaenicophilus'' is a genus of birds that was formerly placed in the family

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 Neotropica ...

, but is now placed in the Hispaniolan tanager family Phaenicophilidae. Its members are sometimes known as palm-tanagers. The genus ''Phaenicophilus'' was introduced by the English geologist and naturalist

Hugh Edwin Strickland Hugh Edwin Strickland (2 March 1811 – 14 September 1853) was an English geologist, ornithologist, naturalist and systematist. Through the British Association, he proposed a series of rules for the nomenclature of organisms in zoology, known a ...

in 1851. The

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 ...

was subsequently designated as the

black-crowned tanager The black-crowned tanager or black-crowned palm-tanager (''Phaenicophilus palmarum'') is a species of bird of the family Phaenicophilidae, the Hispaniolan tanagers. It is endemic to the island of Hispaniola which is shared by Haiti and the Domi ...

. The genus contains the following species:

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q970291 Endemic birds of Hispaniola Higher-level bird taxa restricted to the West Indies Taxa named by Hugh Edwin Strickland Taxonomy articles created by Polbot