Pheucticus

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]

Genus Pheucticus – Reichenbach, 1850 – six species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Yellow grosbeak

Pheucticus chrysopeplus
(Vigors, 1832) 		Pacific slope of Mexico from central Sonora to northwestern Oaxaca, and in southern Chiapas and Guatemala
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Black-thighed grosbeak

Pheucticus tibialis
Lawrence, 1867 		Costa Rica and western Panama.
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Golden grosbeak

Pheucticus chrysogaster
(Lesson, 1832) 		Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
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Black-backed grosbeak

Pheucticus aureoventris
(d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837)

Five subspecies
 Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.
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Rose-breasted grosbeak


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Female

Pheucticus ludovicianus
(Linnaeus, 1766) 		east of the Rocky Mountains, to winter from central-southern Mexico through Central America and the Caribbean to Peru and Venezuela.
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Black-headed grosbeak


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Female

Pheucticus melanocephalus
(Swainson, 1827) 		US Great Plains and from southwestern Canada to the mountains of Mexico.
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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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