Lanio

Lanio
White-throated shrike-tanager, Lanio leucothorax
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Lanio Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Tangara fulva Boddaert, 1783
Species
Lanio aurantius Lanio fulvus Lanio leucothorax Lanio versicolor

Lanio is the genus of shrike-tanagers in the family Thraupidae.

The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the fulvous shrike-tanager (Lanio fulvus) as the type species.[1][2] The genus name is derived from the shrike genus Lanius that was introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.[3]

Species list

The genus contains four species:[4]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Lanio fulvus	Fulvous shrike-tanager	Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
	Lanio versicolor	White-winged shrike-tanager	Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru
	Lanio aurantius	Black-throated shrike-tanager	Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.
	Lanio leucothorax	White-throated shrike-tanager	Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama

References

1. Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 40.
2. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 285.
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 219. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "New World warblers, mitrospingid tanagers". IOC World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 October 2019.