Dacnis is a genus of Neotropical birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.
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| Blue dacnis (Dacnis cayana) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Dacnis Cuvier, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Motacilla cayana Linnaeus, 1766
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10, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pseudodacnis Sclater, PL, 1886 | |
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
editThe 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]
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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| 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. |
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References
edit- ^ a b 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. Bibcode:2014MolPE..75...41B. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006. PMID 24583021.
- ^ 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). Vol. 1. Paris: Déterville. p. 395.
- ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 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.
