Pheucticus
Rose-breasted grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cardinalidae
Genus: Pheucticus
Reichenbach, 1850
Type species
Pitylus aureoventris
Species

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Pheucticus is a genus of grosbeaks containing six species.[1][2]

The genus was introduced by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1850.[3] The type species was subsequently designated as the black-backed grosbeak.[4]

Species

The name of the genus is from the Ancient Greek φευκτικός - pheuktikós "shy" or "inclined to avoid".[5]

Image Common Name Scientific name Distribution
Yellow grosbeak Pheucticus chrysopeplus Pacific slope of Mexico from central Sonora to northwestern Oaxaca, and in southern Chiapas and Guatemala
Black-thighed grosbeak Pheucticus tibialis Costa Rica and western Panama.
Golden grosbeak Pheucticus chrysogaster Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
Black-backed grosbeak Pheucticus aureoventris Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.
Rose-breasted grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus east of the Rocky Mountains, to winter from central-southern Mexico through Central America and the Caribbean to Peru and Venezuela.
Black-headed grosbeak Pheucticus melanocephalus US Great Plains and from southwestern Canada to the mountains of Mexico.

References

  1. ^ "ITIS Report:Pheucticus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
  2. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Cardinals, grosbeaks and (tanager) allies". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
  3. ^ Reichenbach, Ludwig (1850). Avium Systema Naturale. Das natürliche System der Vögel. Vol. 1. Dresden: Expedition der Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. Plate 78.
  4. ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 217.
  5. ^ Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 5 May 2018.


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