Dacnis
Genus of birds
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Dacnis is a genus of Neotropical birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.
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| Dacnis | |
|---|---|
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| Blue dacnis (Dacnis cayana) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Dacnis Cuvier, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Motacilla cayana Linnaeus, 1766 | |
| Species | |
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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
The 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dacnis berlepschi | Scarlet-breasted dacnis | Colombia and Ecuador | |
.jpg) | 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 |
.jpg) | Dacnis flaviventer | Yellow-bellied dacnis | Amazonian regions of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil; also the eastern Orinoco River region of Venezuela. |
.jpg) | Dacnis hartlaubi | Turquoise dacnis | Colombia. |
.jpg) | Dacnis lineata | Black-faced dacnis | Amazon and the Chocó-Magdalena. |
_-_South_Ecuador.jpg) | Dacnis egregia | Yellow-tufted dacnis | Colombia and Ecuador |
| Dacnis viguieri | Viridian dacnis | Colombia and Panama. | |
 | Dacnis nigripes | Black-legged dacnis | Brazil. |
.jpg) | Dacnis albiventris | White-bellied dacnis | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. |
