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Tachyphonus
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Species
White-lined Tanager
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyThraupidae
Observations4,651
Observations recorded360,002
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 28
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Thraupidae
- Collections
- ANSP, LSUMZ, CAS, CLO, UNICAMP, UMMZ
- Recorded in
- Guyana, Brazil, Kenya, Venezuela, Tanzania, Gabon
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Thraupidae
- Image
- Flickr - Rainbirder - White-lined Tanager (Tachyphonus rufus) in a shower.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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Tachyphonus is a genus of birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.
The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the white-lined tanager as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek words takhus "fast" and phōneō "to speak".
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