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Plegadis

Plegadis

Plegadis falcinellus
Clasificación científica
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Clase: Aves
Orde: Pelecaniformes
Familia: Threskiornithidae
Xénero: Plegadis
Kaup, 1829
Especies
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Sinonimia
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Plegadis chihi

Plegadis é un xénero de aves da orde dos pelecaniformes e familia dos tresquiornítidos que inclúe tres especies de mazaricos caracterizados polo seu longo peteiro falciforme e a súa plumaxe moura.[1][2]

Taxonomía

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Descrición

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O xénero foi descrito en 1829 polo paleontólogo e naturalista alemán Johann Jakob Kaup.

Etimoloxía

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O nome científico Plegadis está tirado do grego antigo πληγας plēgas, "fouce", "gadaña", en alusión á forma do bico destas aves.[3]

Sinónimo

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Ademais de polo seu nome actualmente válido, o xénero coñeceuse tamén como:

  • Plegadornis C. L. Brehm, 1855.
Plegadis ridgwayi

Recoñécense tres especies viventes no xénero Plegadis:[4][5]

Ademais coñécense dúas especies fósiles:[6]

  • Plegadis paganus (Milne-Edwards, 1868)
  • Plegadis pharangites (Olson, 1981)


  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan & C. L. Wood (2010): The Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.5. Cornell University Press.
  2. Peterson, A. P. (2010): Birds of the World.
  3. Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. Londres: Christopher Helm. p. 310. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. 
  4. Gill F. & Donsker D., eds., "Family Threskiornithidae", en IOC World Bird Names. Consultada o 17 de outubro de 2021.
  5. Hancock et al. 2010.
  6. Farner 2012.

Véxase tamén

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Bibliografía

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  • Farner, Donald (2012). Elsevier, ed. Avian Biology, Vol. VIII. ISBN 978-0-3231-5799-5. 
  • Hancock, James; James A. Kushlan; M. Philip Kahl (2010). A&C Black, ed. Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World. ISBN 978-1-4081-3500-6. 
  • Sandrock, James; Jean C. Prior (2014). University of Iowa Press, ed. The Scientific Nomenclature of Birds in the Upper Midwest. ISBN 978-1-6093-8225-4. 

Outros artigos

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