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 e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
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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