Cypseloides

Cypseloides
Great dusky swift (Cypseloides senex)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Apodidae
Subfamily: Cypseloidinae
Genus: Cypseloides
Streubel, 1848
Type species
Hemiprocne fumigata (sooty swift)
Streubel, 1848
Species

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Cypseloides is a genus of swifts in the family Apodidae. It contains eight described species. They occur mainly in Central and South America. The exception being the American black swift, which has a wide range into North America.

Taxonomy

The genus Cypseloides was introduced in 1848 by the German naturist August Vollrath Streubel. The type species was subsequently designated by Philip Sclater in 1866 as the sooty swift. The name combines the genus Cypselus introduced by Johann Illiger in 1811 and the Ancient Greek -oidēs meaning "resembling".

The genus contains eight species:

References

  1. ↑ Streubel, August Vollrath (1848). "Die Cypseliden des Berliner Museums". Isis von Oken (in German). Cols 348–373 [366].
  2. ↑ Sclater, Philip Lutley (1865). "Notes on the genera and species of Cypselidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (3) (published 1866): 593–617 [614]. For the publication date see: Duncan, F. Martin (1937). "On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859-1926". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. A107 (1): 71-83 [72]. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1937.tb08500.x.
  3. ↑ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1940). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 4. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 242.
  4. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 129. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  5. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2022). "Owlet-nightjars, treeswifts & swifts". IOC World Bird List Version 12.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 9 Jul 2022.