| Lanio | |
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| White-throated shrike-tanager, Lanio leucothorax | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Lanio Vieillot, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Tangara fulva Boddaert, 1783 | |
| Species | |
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Lanio aurantius | |
Lanio is the genusofshrike-tanagers in the family Thraupidae.
The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the fulvous shrike-tanager (Lanio fulvus) as the type species.[1][2] The genus name is derived from the shrike genus Lanius that was introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.[3]
The genus contains four species:[4]
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Lanio fulvus | Fulvous shrike-tanager | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela |
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Lanio versicolor | White-winged shrike-tanager | Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru |
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Lanio aurantius | Black-throated shrike-tanager | Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. |
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Lanio leucothorax | White-throated shrike-tanager | Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama |
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