Dacnis

Dacnis
	Blue dacnis (Dacnis cayana)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Dacnis; Cuvier, 1816
Type species
	Motacilla cayana; Linnaeus, 1766
Species
	10, see text
Synonyms
	Pseudodacnis Sclater, 1886

Dacnis is a genus of Neotropical birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

These are highly sexually dichromatic species with bright blue males and green females. They have various bill types and many of them feed on nectar.[1]

Taxonomy and species list

The genus Dacnis was introduced in 1816 by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier with the blue dacnis as the type species.[2][3] The name is from the Ancient Greek daknis, an unidentified bird from Egypt listed by Hesychius of Alexandria and Sextus Pompeius Festus.[4] This genus is placed together with the genera Tesina and Cyanerpes in the subfamily Dacninae.[1]

The genus contains ten species:[5]

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
Dacnis berlepschi	Scarlet-breasted dacnis	Colombia and Ecuador
Dacnis venusta	Scarlet-thighed dacnis	Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and Panama.
Dacnis cayana	Blue dacnis	Nicaragua to Panama, on Trinidad, and in South America south to Bolivia and northern Argentina
Dacnis flaviventer	Yellow-bellied dacnis	Amazonian regions of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil; also the eastern Orinoco River region of Venezuela.
Dacnis hartlaubi	Turquoise dacnis	Colombia.
Dacnis lineata	Black-faced dacnis	Amazon and the Chocó-Magdalena.
Dacnis egregia	Yellow-tufted dacnis	Colombia and Ecuador
Dacnis viguieri	Viridian dacnis	Colombia and Panama.
Dacnis nigripes	Black-legged dacnis	Brazil.
Dacnis albiventris	White-bellied dacnis	Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

References

Burns, K.J.; Shultz, A.J.; Title, P.O.; Mason, N.A.; Barker, F.K.; Klicka, J.; Lanyon, S.M.; Lovette, I.J. (2014). "Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 75: 41–77. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006.
Cuvier, Georges (1816). Le Règne animal distribué d'après son organisation : pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée (in French). Volume 1. Paris: Déterville. p. 395.
Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Volume 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 387.
Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 130. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 November 2020.

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[burns2014-1] Burns, K.J.; Shultz, A.J.; Title, P.O.; Mason, N.A.; Barker, F.K.; Klicka, J.; Lanyon, S.M.; Lovette, I.J. (2014). "Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 75: 41–77. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006.

[2] Cuvier, Georges (1816). Le Règne animal distribué d'après son organisation : pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée (in French). Volume 1. Paris: Déterville. p. 395.

[3] Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Volume 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 387.

[4] Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 130. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.

[ioc-5] Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 November 2020.