Biology:Phoenicoparrus

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Short description: Genus of birds


Phoenicoparrus
Two andeanflamingo june2003 arp.jpg
Andean flamingo (Phoenicoparrus andinus)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Phoenicopteriformes
Family: Phoenicopteridae
Genus: Phoenicoparrus
Bonaparte, 1856
Type species
Phoenicopterus andinus
Philippi, 1854[1]
Synonyms

Phoeniconaias

Phoenicoparrus is a genus of birds in the flamingo family Phoenicopteridae. First established by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1856,[2] it contains two species.[3][4]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Flamenco en Laguna Chaxa.JPG Phoenicoparrus andinus Andean flamingo southern Peru to northwestern Argentina and northern Chile
James Flamingo.jpg Phoenicoparrus jamesi James's flamingo Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina

References

  1. Philippi, R. A. (1855). "Ueber einige Vögel Chile's". Archiv für Naturgeschichte 21 (1): 12. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6651121. 
  2. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1856). "Additions et corrections aux tableaux paralléliques de l'ordre des hérons et des pélagiens ou gavies, et à la partie correspondante, déjà publiée, du Conspectus Avium" (in French). Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 43: 990–997 [992]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1211528. 
  3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (July 2021). "Grebes, flamingos". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/grebes/. 
  4. Torres, Chris R; Ogawa, Lisa M; Gillingham, Mark AF; Ferrari, Brittney; van Tuinen, Marcel (2014). "A multi-locus inference of the evolutionary diversification of extant flamingos (Phoenicopteridae)". BMC Evolutionary Biology 14 (1): 36. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-14-36. PMID 24580860. 

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