Polioptila
Polioptila is a genus of small insectivorous birds in the family Polioptilidae. They are found in North and South America.
| 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 |
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 16 species:[5]
- Blue-grey gnatcatcher, Polioptila caerulea
- Black-tailed gnatcatcher, Polioptila melanura
- California gnatcatcher, Polioptila californica
- Cuban gnatcatcher, Polioptila lembeyei
- White-lored gnatcatcher, Polioptila albiloris
- Yucatan gnatcatcher, Polioptila albiventris
- Black-capped gnatcatcher, Polioptila nigriceps
- Tropical gnatcatcher, Polioptila plumbea
- Creamy-bellied gnatcatcher, Polioptila lactea
- Guianan gnatcatcher, Polioptila guianensis
- Rio Negro gnatcatcher, Polioptila facilis – split from P. guianensis
- Para gnatcatcher, Polioptila paraensis – split from P. guianensis
- Inambari gnatcatcher, Polioptila attenboroughi – described in 2013
- Iquitos gnatcatcher, Polioptila clementsi – described in 2005
- Slate-throated gnatcatcher, Polioptila schistaceigula
- Masked gnatcatcher, Polioptila dumicola
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.
- 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, eds. (2019). "Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, hyliotas, wrens, gnatcatchers". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
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