Systellura

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Systellura
Band-winged Nightjar (Caprimulgus longirostris).jpg
Band-winged nightjar (Systellura longirostris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Caprimulgiformes
Family: Caprimulgidae
Subfamily: Caprimulginae
Genus: Systellura
Ridgway, 1912
Type species
Stenopsis ruficervix

Systellura is a genus of South American nightjars in the nightjar family Caprimulgidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Systellura was introduced in 1912 by the American ornithologist Robert Ridgway with Stenopsis ruficervix Sclater, PL, 1866, as the type species. [1] [2] Stenopsis ruficervix is now considered to be a subspecies of Systellura longirostris, the band-winged nightjar. [3] [4] The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek συστελλω/sustellō meaning "to shorten" and ουρα/oura meaning "tail". [5]

The genus contains the following two species: [3]

References

  1. ↑ Ridgway, Robert (1912). "Diagnoses of some new genera of American birds". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 25: 97-102 [97].
  2. ↑ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1940). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 4. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 196.
  3. 1 2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (February 2025). "Frogmouths, Oilbird, potoos, nightjars". IOC World Bird List Version 15.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
  4. ↑ Dickinson, E.C.; Remsen, J.V. Jr., eds. (2013). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World . Vol. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 88. ISBN   978-0-9568611-0-8.
  5. ↑ Jobling, James A. "Systellura". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 24 June 2025.


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