Phoenicoparrus

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]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Phoenicoparrus andinusAndean flamingosouthern Peru to northwestern Argentina and northern Chile
Phoenicoparrus jamesiJames's flamingoPeru, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina

Phoenicoparrus
Andean flamingo (Phoenicoparrus andinus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Phoenicopteriformes
Family: Phoenicopteridae
Genus: Phoenicoparrus
Bonaparte, 1856
Type species
Phoenicopterus andinus
Philippi, 1854[1]
Synonyms

Phoeniconaias

References

  1. Philippi, R. A. (1855). "Ueber einige Vögel Chile's". Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 21 (1): 12.
  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". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences (in French). 43: 990–997 [992].
  3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Grebes, flamingos". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
  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. PMC 4016592. PMID 24580860.


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