Cypseloides

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Cypseloides
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Great dusky swift (Cypseloides senex)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
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. [1] The type species was subsequently designated by Philip Sclater in 1865 as the sooty swift. [2] [3] The name combines the genus Cypselus introduced by Johann Illiger in 1811 and the Ancient Greek -oidēs meaning "resembling". [4]

The genus contains eight species: [5]

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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: 593-617 [614].
  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.