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List of bird genera concerns the chordata class of ... This is the largest order of birds and contains more than half of all birds. ... Genus Argya (species previous ...
There are seven main taxonomic ranks: kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, and species. In addition, domain (proposed by Carl Woese ) is now widely used as a fundamental rank, although it is not mentioned in any of the nomenclature codes, and is a synonym for dominion ( Latin : dominium ), introduced by Moore in 1974.
Birds (class Aves) – winged, bipedal, endothermic (warm-blooded), egg-laying, vertebrate animals. There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most varied of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic, to the Antarctic.
Many species migrate annually over great distances and across oceans; several families of birds have adapted to life both on the world's oceans and in them, and some seabird species come ashore only to breed, [69] while some penguins have been recorded diving up to 300 metres (980 ft) deep.
The genus Passerina was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816. [1] The type species was designated in 1840 as the indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray. [2] [3] The genus name is from the Latin passerinus meaning "sparrow-like". [4] The genus contains 7 species: [5]
The family Sylviidae has undergone several revisions since the above phylogeny was published. As of August 2024, the International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 32 species divided among two genera: [11] This list is presented according to the IOC taxonomic sequence and can also be sorted alphabetically by common name and binomial.
Hooded crow (Corvus cornix) in flight Jungle crow (Corvus macrorhynchos) scavenging on a dead shark at a beach in Kumamoto, Japan. Medium-large species are ascribed to the genus, ranging from 34 cm (13 in) of some small Mexican species to 60–70 cm (24–28 in) of the large common raven and thick-billed raven, which together with the lyrebird represent the larger passerines.
The genus Calothorax was introduced in 1840 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray with the lucifer sheartail as the type species. [2] [3] The name combines the Ancient Greek kalos meaning "beautiful" with thÅrax meaning "breast". [4] The genus contains two species: [5]