Chordeiles

Chordeiles is a New World genus of nighthawks in the family Caprimulgidae. It contains the following species:^[1]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Chordeiles pusillus	Least nighthawk	northern South America
	Chordeiles rupestris	Sand-coloured nighthawk	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela
	Chordeiles minor	Common nighthawk	South America to northern North America.
	Chordeiles acutipennis	Lesser nighthawk	United States through South America
	Chordeiles gundlachii	Antillean nighthawk	the Greater Antilles, the Bahamas and the Florida Keys in the United States.
	Chordeiles nacunda	Nacunda nighthawk	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela

Chordeiles
Common nighthawk (Chordeiles minor)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Caprimulgiformes
Family:	Caprimulgidae
Subfamily:	Chordeilinae
Genus:	Chordeiles Swainson, 1832
Synonyms
Podager

The genus name Chordeiles is from Ancient Greek khoreia, a dance with music, and deile, "evening".^[2]

References

1. "ITIS Report: Chordeiles Swainson, 1832". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
2. Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.