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Polioptila 
Summary
Polioptila is a genus of small insectivorous birds in the family Polioptilidae. They are found in North and South America.
| Polioptila | |
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| California gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Polioptilidae |
| Genus: | Polioptila Sclater, PL, 1855 |
| Type species | |
| Motacilla caerulea[1] Linnaeus, 1766
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The genus Polioptila was introduced by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1855. Although he listed several members, he did not specify a type species.[2] This was designated by the American ornithologist Spencer Baird in 1864 as Montacilla caerulea, Linnaeus, now the blue-grey gnatcatcher, Polioptila caerulea.[3][4] The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek words πολιος polios "grey" and πτιλον ptilon "plumage".[5]
The genus contains 17 species:[6]
- Rio Negro gnatcatcher, Polioptila facilis – split from P. guianensis
- Guianan gnatcatcher, Polioptila guianensis
- Slate-throated gnatcatcher, Polioptila schistaceigula
- Para gnatcatcher, Polioptila paraensis – split from P. guianensis
- Iquitos gnatcatcher, Polioptila clementsi – described in 2005
- Inambari gnatcatcher, Polioptila attenboroughi – described in 2013
- Tropical gnatcatcher, Polioptila plumbea
- Creamy-bellied gnatcatcher, Polioptila lactea
- Masked gnatcatcher, Polioptila dumicola
- Cuban gnatcatcher, Polioptila lembeyei
- Yucatan gnatcatcher, Polioptila albiventris
- White-browed gnatcatcher, Polioptila bilineata – split from P. plumbea
- Blue-grey gnatcatcher, Polioptila caerulea
- Black-tailed gnatcatcher, Polioptila melanura
- California gnatcatcher, Polioptila californica
- Black-capped gnatcatcher, Polioptila nigriceps
- White-lored gnatcatcher, Polioptila albiloris
References edit
- ^ "Polioptilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
- ^ Sclater, P.L. (1855). "On the genus Culicivora of Swainson, and its component species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 23: 11–12.
- ^ Baird, Spencer Fullerton (1864). Review of American birds, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Vol. Part 1, North and Middle America. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. p. 67.
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 448.
- ^ Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, Elachura, hyliotas, wrens, gnatcatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 June 2021.