Phaenicophilus is a genus of birds that was formerly placed in the family Thraupidae, but is now placed in the Greater Antillean tanager family Phaenicophilidae. Its members are known as palm-tanagers.
The genus Phaenicophilus was introduced by the English geologist and naturalist Hugh Edwin Strickland in 1851. The type species was subsequently designated as the black-crowned palm-tanager.
The genus contains the following species:
Image Scientific name Common name Distribution Phaenicophilus palmarum Black-crowned palm-tanager Haiti and the Dominican Republic Phaenicophilus poliocephalus Grey-crowned palm-tanager Haiti and the Dominican Republic
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