Coragyps

Coragyps is a genus of New World vulture that contains the black vulture (Coragyps atratus) and two extinct relatives.

Coragyps
Black vulture (Coragyps atratus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Cathartidae
Genus: Coragyps
Le Maout, 1853
Type species
Vultur atratus
Bechstein, 1793
Species

The genus Coragyps was introduced in 1853 by the French naturalist Emmanuel Le Maout to accommodate the black vulture.[1][2] The name combines the Ancient Greek korax meaning "raven" with gups meaning "vulture".[3]

One extinct species is the 'western' black vulture, Coragyps occidentalis, a larger ancestral relative of the modern species which lived in North America during much of the Pleistocene epoch; however, genetic evidence indicates that C. occidentalis may not be a true species of its own, as it is nested within the modern black vulture.[4][5][6] The other is the Cuban black vulture, Coragyps seductus, known from the Pleistocene of Cuba.[7]

References
  1. Le Maout, Emmanuel (1853). Histoire naturelle des oiseaux : suivant a classification de M. Isidore Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, avec l'indication de leurs moeurs et de leurs rapports avec les arts, le commerce et l'agriculture (in French). Paris: L. Curmer. pp. 57, 66.
  2. Gregory, Steven M.S. (1998). "The correct citation of Coragyps (Cathartinae) and Ardeotis (Otididae)". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 118 (2): 126–127.
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. Fisher, Harvey L (1944). "The skulls of the Cathartid vultures" (PDF). Condor. 46 (6): 272–296. doi:10.2307/1364013. JSTOR 1364013. Retrieved November 3, 2007.
  5. Hertel, Fritz (1995). "Ecomorphological indicators of feeding behavior in Recent and fossil raptors" (PDF). Auk. 12 (4): 890–903. doi:10.2307/4089021. hdl:10211.3/138737. JSTOR 4089021. Retrieved November 3, 2007.
  6. Ericson, Per G. P.; Irestedt, Martin; Zuccon, Dario; Larsson, Petter; Tison, Jean-Luc; Emslie, Steven D.; Götherström, Anders; Hume, Julian P.; Werdelin, Lars; Qu, Yanhua (2022-08-23). "A 14,000-year-old genome sheds light on the evolution and extinction of a Pleistocene vulture". Communications Biology. 5 (1): 857. doi:10.1038/s42003-022-03811-0. ISSN 2399-3642. PMC 9399080. PMID 35999361.
  7. Suárez, William (May 22, 2020). "The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba". Zootaxa. 4780 (1): zootaxa.4780.1.1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4780.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33055754. S2CID 219510089.
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