Chordeiles
Genus of birds
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Chordeiles is a New World genus of nighthawks in the nightjar family Caprimulgidae.
| Chordeiles | |
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| Common nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Caprimulgiformes |
| Family: | Caprimulgidae |
| Genus: | Chordeiles Swainson, 1832 |
| Type species | |
| Caprimulgus virginianus Gmelin, JF, 1789=Camprimulgus minor Forster, JR, 1771 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Podager | |
Taxonomy
The genus Chordeiles was introduced in 1832 by the English zoologist William Swainson with Caprimulgus virginianus Gmelin, JF, 1789, as the type species.[1] This is a junior synonym of Camprimulgus minor Forster, JR, 1771, the common nighthawk.[2] The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek χορδή/khordē meaning "chord" and δείλη/deilē meaning "evening".[3]
The genus contains the following six species:[4]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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 | Chordeiles pusillus | Least nighthawk | northern South America |
.jpg) | Chordeiles rupestris | Sand-coloured nighthawk | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela |
.jpg) | Chordeiles minor | Common nighthawk | South America to northern North America. |
 | Chordeiles acutipennis | Lesser nighthawk | United States through South America |
;_with_distinctive_white_patch,_resting_in_Cabo_Rojo_National_Wildlife_Refuge,_Puerto_Rico.JPG) | 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 |
