Polioptila
Polioptila | |
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California gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Polioptilidae |
Genus: | Polioptila Sclater P.L., 1855 |
Polioptila is a genus of small insectivorous birds in the family Polioptilidae. They are found in North and South America.
The genus Polioptila was introduced by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1855. Although he listed several members, he did not specify a type species.[1] This was designated by the American ornithologist Spencer Baird in 1864 as Montacilla caerulea, Linnaeus, now the blue-grey gnatcatcher, Polioptila caerulea.[2][3] The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek words πολιος polios "grey" and πτιλον ptilon "plumage".[4]
The genus contains 17 species:[5]
- Rio Negro gnatcatcher, Polioptila facilis – split from P. guianensis
- Guianan gnatcatcher, Polioptila guianensis
- Slate-throated gnatcatcher, Polioptila schistaceigula
- Para gnatcatcher, Polioptila paraensis – split from P. guianensis
- Iquitos gnatcatcher, Polioptila clementsi – described in 2005
- Inambari gnatcatcher, Polioptila attenboroughi – described in 2013
- Tropical gnatcatcher, Polioptila plumbea
- Creamy-bellied gnatcatcher, Polioptila lactea
- Masked gnatcatcher, Polioptila dumicola
- Cuban gnatcatcher, Polioptila lembeyei
- Yucatan gnatcatcher, Polioptila albiventris
- White-browed gnatcatcher, Polioptila bilineata – split from P. plumbea
- Blue-grey gnatcatcher, Polioptila caerulea
- Black-tailed gnatcatcher, Polioptila melanura
- California gnatcatcher, Polioptila californica
- Black-capped gnatcatcher, Polioptila nigriceps
- White-lored gnatcatcher, Polioptila albiloris
References[]
- ^ Sclater, P.L. (1855). "On the genus Culicivora of Swainson, and its component species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 23: 11–12.
- ^ Baird, Spencer Fullerton (1864). Review of American birds, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1, North and Middle America. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. p. 67.
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 448.
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has extra text (help) - ^ Jobling, J.A. (2019). 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 28 January 2019.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, Elachura, hyliotas, wrens, gnatcatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
Categories:
- Polioptila
- Polioptilidae
- Bird genera
- Taxa named by Philip Sclater
- Certhioidea stubs