Nemosia

Nemosia is a genus of South American birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Nemosia
Hooded tanager, Nemosia pileata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Nemosia
Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Tanagra pileata
Boddaert, 1783
Species

The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the hooded tanager as the type species.[1][2] The name Nemosia is from the Ancient Greek nemos meaning "glade" or "dell".[3]

The genus contains two species:[4]

References

  1. Vieillot, Louis Jean Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 32.
  2. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 276.
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 267. 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.


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