The genus Arremon was erected in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in his Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Elementaire to accommodate the pectoral sparrow (Arremon taciturnus).
The name is from the Classical greek arrhēmōn meaning "silent" or "without speech".
 The pectoral sparrow had been given the French name "L'Oiseau Silencieux" by the polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779.

The genus contains 19 species.

This genus includes species traditionally placed in Buarremon and Lysurus.
The genus Arremon was erected in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in his Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Elementaire to accommodate the pectoral sparrow (Arremon taciturnus). The name is from the Classical greek arrhēmōn meaning "silent" or "without speech".  The pectoral sparrow had been given the French name "L'Oiseau Silencieux" by the polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779.
The genus contains 19 species.
This genus includes species traditionally placed in Buarremon and Lysurus.
Arremon