Phoenicopterus

Taxonomy

The genus Phoenicopterus was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae to accommodate a single species, the American flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber.[1][2] The genus name is Latin for "flamingo".[3]

Species

The genus contains three extant species:[4]

ImageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Greater flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus Pallas, 1811 widespread in Africa and southwest, south-central Eurasia
American flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus, 1758 northern Galápagos Islands and the Caribbean
Chilean flamingo Phoenicopterus chilensis Molina, 1782 central Peru to Tierra del Fuego east to south Brazil, Uruguay and central Argentina

References
  1. Linnaeus, Carl (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1 (10th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 139.
  2. Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 269.
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 304. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. 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.


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