Phoenicoparrus
| Phoenicoparrus | |
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| Andean flamingo (Phoenicoparrus andinus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Phoenicopteriformes |
| Family: | Phoenicopteridae |
| Genus: | Phoenicoparrus Bonaparte, 1856[1] |
| Type species | |
| Phoenicopterus andinus Philippi, 1854[2]
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| Synonyms | |
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Phoeniconaias | |
Phoenicoparrus is a genus of bird in the family Phoenicopteridae. First established by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1856, it contains two species.[3][4]
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Phoenicoparrus andinus | Andean flamingo | southern Peru to northwestern Argentina and northern Chile |
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Phoenicoparrus jamesi | James's flamingo | Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina |
References
- ^ Bonaparte, Charles-L. (1856). "Additions et Corrections aux Tableaux paralléliques de l'Ordre des Hérons et des Pélagiens ou Gavies, et à la partie correspondante, déjà publée, du Conspectus Avium". Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences. 43: 992.
- ^ Philippi, R. A. (1855). "Ueber einige Vögel Chile's". Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 21 (1): 12.
- ^ "ITIS Report: Phoenicoparrus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- ^ Torres, Chris R; Ogawa, Lisa M; Gillingham, Mark AF; Ferrari, Brittney; van Tuinen, Marcel (2014). "A multi-locus inference of the evolutionary diversification of extant flamingos (Phoenicopteridae)". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14 (1): 36. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-14-36. PMC 4016592. PMID 24580860.
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