Onychognathus
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Genus of birds
| Onychognathus | |
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| Pale-winged starling (Onychognathus nabouroup) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Sturnidae |
| Genus: | Onychognathus Hartlaub, 1849 |
| Type species | |
| Onychognathus fulgidus[1] Hartlaub, 1849 | |
Onychognathus is a genus of starlings native to the Afrotropical realm. All the species are quite similar, and characterised by rufous primary wing feathers, very obvious in flight. The males are typically mainly glossy black, and the females have dull (sometimes dark, depending on species) grey heads.
The genus was introduced by the German physician and ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub in 1849 to accommodate a single species, Onychognathus fulgidus Hartlaub, the chestnut-winged starling, which becomes the type species.[2][3] The name Onychognathus combines the Ancient Greek words onukhos "claw" or "nail" and gnathos "jaw".[4]
The genus contains 11 species.[5]
- Red-winged starling, Onychognathus morio – east, southeast, south Africa
- Slender-billed starling, Onychognathus tenuirostris – east Africa
- Chestnut-winged starling, Onychognathus fulgidus – west, central Africa
- Waller's starling, Onychognathus walleri – central west, central, east Africa
- Somali starling, Onychognathus blythii – Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia and Socotra
- Socotra starling, Onychognathus frater – Socotra
- Tristram's starling, Onychognathus tristramii – Arabian Peninsula
- Pale-winged starling, Onychognathus nabouroup – southwest Angola to south and central South Africa
- Bristle-crowned starling, Onychognathus salvadorii – central Ethiopia to northeast Uganda, central Kenya and central Somalia
- White-billed starling, Onychognathus albirostris – montane Eritrea and Ethiopia
- Neumann's starling, Onychognathus neumanni – central, west Africa
References
- ↑ "Sturnidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
- ↑ Hartlaub, Gustav (1849). "Description de cinq nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux de l'Afrique occidentale". Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée. 2nd Series (in French and Latin). 1: 494–499 [494].
- ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 87.
- ↑ Jobling, J.A. (2018). 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 11 May 2018.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Nuthatches, Wallcreeper, treecreepers, mockingbirds, starlings, oxpeckers". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
Further reading
- Feare, Chris; Craig, Adrian (1999). Starlings and Mynas. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-7136-3961-X.
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