Coragyps

Coragyps
Black vulture (Coragyps atratus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Cathartidae
Genus:	Coragyps Le Maout, 1853
Type species
Vultur atratus Bechstein, 1793
Species
Coragyps atratus † Coragyps occidentalis † Coragyps seductus

Coragyps is a genus of New World vulture that contains the black vulture (Coragyps atratus) and two extinct relatives.

The genus Coragyps was introduced in 1853 by the French naturalist Emmanuel Le Maout to accommodate the black vulture. ^{[1] [2]} The name combines the Ancient Greek korax meaning "raven" with gups meaning "vulture". ^[3]

One extinct species is the 'western' black vulture, Coragyps occidentalis , a larger ancestral relative of the modern species which lived in North America during much of the Pleistocene epoch; however, genetic evidence indicates that C. occidentalis may not be a true species of its own, as it is nested within the modern black vulture. ^{[4] [5] [6]} The other is the Cuban black vulture, Coragyps seductus , known from the Pleistocene of Cuba. ^[7]

References

1. Le Maout, Emmanuel (1853). Histoire naturelle des oiseaux : suivant a classification de M. Isidore Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, avec l'indication de leurs moeurs et de leurs rapports avec les arts, le commerce et l'agriculture (in French). Paris: L. Curmer. pp.  57, 66.
2. Gregory, Steven M.S. (1998). "The correct citation of Coragyps (Cathartinae) and Ardeotis (Otididae)". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 118 (2): 126–127.
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 118. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. Fisher, Harvey L (1944). "The skulls of the Cathartid vultures" (PDF). Condor . 46 (6): 272–296. doi:10.2307/1364013. JSTOR   1364013 . Retrieved November 3, 2007.
5. Hertel, Fritz (1995). "Ecomorphological indicators of feeding behavior in Recent and fossil raptors" (PDF). Auk . 12 (4): 890–903. doi:10.2307/4089021. hdl: 10211.3/138737 . JSTOR   4089021 . Retrieved November 3, 2007.
6. Ericson, Per G. P.; Irestedt, Martin; Zuccon, Dario; Larsson, Petter; Tison, Jean-Luc; Emslie, Steven D.; Götherström, Anders; Hume, Julian P.; Werdelin, Lars; Qu, Yanhua (2022-08-23). "A 14,000-year-old genome sheds light on the evolution and extinction of a Pleistocene vulture". Communications Biology. 5 (1): 857. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03811-0 . ISSN   2399-3642. PMC   9399080 . PMID   35999361.
7. Suárez, William (May 22, 2020). "The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba" . Zootaxa. 4780 (1): zootaxa.4780.1.1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4780.1.1. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   33055754. S2CID   219510089.