Phoenicoparrus

Phoenicoparrus is a genus of bird in the family Phoenicopteridae. First established by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1856, 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
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Phoenicopteriformes
Family: Phoenicopteridae
Genus: Phoenicoparrus
Bonaparte, 1856[1]
Type species
Phoenicopterus andinus
Philippi, 1854[2]
Synonyms

Phoeniconaias

References

  1. Bonaparte, Charles-L. (1856). "Additions et Corrections aux Tableaux paralléliques de l'Ordre des Hérons et des Pélagiens ou Gavies, et à la partie correspondante, déjà publée, du Conspectus Avium". Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences. 43: 992.
  2. Philippi, R. A. (1855). "Ueber einige Vögel Chile's". Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 21 (1): 12.
  3. "ITIS Report: Phoenicoparrus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  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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