''Caryothraustes'' is a genus of

grosbeak Grosbeak is a form taxon containing various species of seed-eating passerine birds with large beaks. Although they all belong to the superfamily Passeroidea, these birds are not part of a natural group but rather a polyphyletic assemblage of di ...

in the family

Cardinalidae Cardinalidae (often referred to as the "cardinal-grosbeaks" or simply the "cardinals") is a family of New World-endemic passerine birds that consists of cardinals, grosbeaks, and buntings. It also includes several birds such as the tanager-lik ...

. The genus was introduced by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1850. 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 specime ...

was subsequently designated as the

yellow-green grosbeak The yellow-green grosbeak (''Caryothraustes canadensis'') is a species of grosbeak in the family Cardinalidae. Taxonomy In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the yellow-green grosbeak in his ''Ornitholog ...

. The name ''Caryothraustes'' combines the

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 p ...

words ''karuon'' "nut" and ''thraustēs'' "breaker". The genus contains two species:

References

Bird genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Ludwig Reichenbach {{Passeroidea-stub