Pheucticus

Pheucticus
	Rose-breasted grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cardinalidae
Genus:	Pheucticus; Reichenbach, 1850
Type species
	Pitylus aureoventris; d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837
Species
	See text

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]

Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
Yellow grosbeak	Pheucticus chrysopeplus	Pacific slope of Mexico from central Sonora to northwestern Oaxaca, and in southern Chiapas and Guatemala
Black-thighed grosbeak	Pheucticus tibialis	Costa Rica and western Panama.
Golden grosbeak	Pheucticus chrysogaster	Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
Black-backed grosbeak	Pheucticus aureoventris	Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.
Rose-breasted grosbeak	Pheucticus ludovicianus	east of the Rocky Mountains, to winter from central-southern Mexico through Central America and the Caribbean to Peru and Venezuela.
Black-headed grosbeak	Pheucticus melanocephalus	US Great Plains and from southwestern Canada to the mountains of Mexico.

^ "ITIS Report:Pheucticus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Cardinals, grosbeaks and (tanager) allies". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
^ Reichenbach, Ludwig (1850). Avium Systema Naturale. Das natürliche System der Vögel. Vol. 1. Dresden: Expedition der Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. Plate 78.
^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 217.
^ 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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