Nemosia

Nemosia
	Hooded tanager, Nemosia pileata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Nemosia; Vieillot, 1816
Type species
	Tanagra pileata; Boddaert, 1783
Species
	Nemosia pileata; Nemosia rourei;

Nemosia is a genus of South American birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the hooded tanager as the type species.^[1]^[2] The name Nemosia is from the Ancient Greek nemos meaning "glade" or "dell".^[3]

Species

The genus contains two species:^[4]

Genus **Nemosia** – Vieillot, 1816 – two species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Hooded tanager	Nemosia pileata (Boddaert, 1783) Six subspecies N. p. hypoleuca Todd, 1916 N. p. surinamensis Zimmer, JT, 1947 N. p. pileata (Boddaert, 1783) N. p. interna Zimmer, JT, 1947 N. p. nana von Berlepsch, 1912 N. p. caerulea (zu Wied-Neuwied, 1831)	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Cherry-throated tanager	Nemosia rourei Cabanis, 1870	Atlantic Forest in Espírito Santo, Brazil	Size: Habitat: Diet:	CR

^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 32.
^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 276.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 267. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "New World warblers, mitrospingid tanagers". IOC World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 October 2019.

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