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Genus of birds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cypseloides is a genus of swifts in the family Apodidae. It contains eight described species. They occur mainly in Central and South America. The exception being the American black swift, which has a wide range into North America.
Cypseloides | |
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Great dusky swift (Cypseloides senex) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Apodidae |
Subfamily: | Cypseloidinae |
Genus: | Cypseloides Streubel, 1848 |
Type species | |
Hemiprocne fumigata (sooty swift) Streubel, 1848 | |
Species | |
See article |
The genus Cypseloides was introduced in 1848 by the German naturist August Vollrath Streubel.[1] The type species was subsequently designated by Philip Sclater in 1865 as the sooty swift.[2][3] The name combines the genus Cypselus introduced by Johann Illiger in 1811 and the Ancient Greek -oidēs meaning "resembling".[4]
The genus contains eight species:[5]
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