Biology:Polioptila

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Short description: Genus of birds

Polioptila
California Gnatcatcher.jpg
California gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Polioptilidae
Genus: Polioptila
Sclater, PL, 1855
Type species
Motacilla caerulea[1]
Linnaeus, 1766

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.[2] This was designated by the American ornithologist Spencer Baird in 1864 as Montacilla caerulea, Linnaeus, now the blue-grey gnatcatcher, Polioptila caerulea.[3][4] The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek words πολιος polios "grey" and πτιλον ptilon "plumage".[5]

The genus contains 17 species:[6]

References

  1. "Polioptilidae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=176. 
  2. Sclater, P.L. (1855). "On the genus Culicivora of Swainson, and its component species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 23: 11–12. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747842. 
  3. 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. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7283317. 
  4. Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds (1964). Check-list of Birds of the World. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 448. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14486637. 
  5. Jobling, J.A. (2019). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". in del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. et al.. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/polioptila. Retrieved 28 January 2019. 
  6. 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. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sugarbirds/. 

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