Chrysococcyx
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Specimen Records:26
Specimens with Sequences:9
Specimens with Barcodes:9
Species:9
Species With Barcodes:3
Public Records:2
Public Species:1
Public BINs:1
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Collection Sites: world map showing specimen collection locations for Chrysococcyx
Chrysococcyx:
Chrysococcyx is a genus of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. The scientific name Chrysococcyx is Greek for gold cuckoo (χρυσός,κούκος)[1] Some authorities split the principally Australo-Papuan taxa into the genus Chalcites.[2]
The genus contains the following species:
- Afro-Asian
- Dideric cuckoo (Chrysococcyx caprius)
- Pied bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx (minutillus) crassirostris)
- African emerald cuckoo (Chrysococcyx cupreus)
- Yellow-throated cuckoo (Chrysococcyx flavigularis)
- Klaas's cuckoo (Chrysococcyx klaas)
- Asian emerald cuckoo (Chrysococcyx maculatus)
- Gould's bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx (minutillus) russatus)
- Violet cuckoo (Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus)
- Australo-Papuan
- Horsfield's bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx basalis)
- Shining bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus)
- White-eared bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx meyeri)
- Little bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx minutillus)
- Black-eared cuckoo (Chrysococcyx osculans)
- Rufous-throated bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx ruficollis)
- Long-billed cuckoo (Chrysococcyx megarhynchus)
References[edit]
- ^ Jobling, James A (1991). A Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. OUP. ISBN 0 19 854634 3.
- ^ Christidis, Les; Boles, Walter E. (2008). Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing. pp. 159–164. ISBN 9780643065116.
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