Atelornis

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Atelornis
Atelornis pittoides -Zurich Zoologischer Garten-8a.jpg
Pitta-like ground roller
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Brachypteraciidae
Genus: Atelornis
Pucheran, 1846

Atelornis is a small genus of birds in the ground-roller family Brachypteraciidae. The genus is endemic to Madagascar. [1]

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Species

There are two species:

Genus Atelornis – Pucheran, 1846 – two species
Common nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Rufous-headed ground roller

Rufous-headed ground-roller (Atelornis crossleyi).jpg

Atelornis crossleyi
Sharpe, 1875		Madagascar.Size:

Habitat:

Diet:		  NT 


Pitta-like ground roller

Pitta-like Ground-roller, Mantadia, Madagascar (4315996846) (cropped).jpg

Atelornis pittoides
Lafresnaye, 1834		Madagascar.Size:

Habitat:

Diet:		  LC 


References

  1. ↑ Zoology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of (1892). Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Picariœ, Coraciœ (contin.) and Halcyones, with the families Leptosomatidœ, Coraciidœ, Meropidœ, Alcedinidœ, Momotidœ, Todidœ, and Coliidœ, by R.B. Sharpe. Bucerotes and Trogones, by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant. order of the Trustees. pp. 7–12.
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