Polioptila

Polioptila
	California gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Polioptilidae
Genus:	Polioptila; Sclater P.L., 1855

Polioptila is a genus of small insectivorous birds in the family Polioptilidae. They are found in North and South America.

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.[1] This was designated by the American ornithologist Spencer Baird in 1864 as Montacilla caerulea, Linnaeus, now the blue-grey gnatcatcher, Polioptila caerulea.[2][3] The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek words πολιος polios "grey" and πτιλον ptilon "plumage".[4]

The genus contains 16 species:[5]

Blue-grey gnatcatcher, Polioptila caerulea
Black-tailed gnatcatcher, Polioptila melanura
California gnatcatcher, Polioptila californica
Cuban gnatcatcher, Polioptila lembeyei
White-lored gnatcatcher, Polioptila albiloris
Yucatan gnatcatcher, Polioptila albiventris
Black-capped gnatcatcher, Polioptila nigriceps
Tropical gnatcatcher, Polioptila plumbea
Creamy-bellied gnatcatcher, Polioptila lactea
Guianan gnatcatcher, Polioptila guianensis
Rio Negro gnatcatcher, Polioptila facilis – split from P. guianensis
Para gnatcatcher, Polioptila paraensis – split from P. guianensis
Inambari gnatcatcher, Polioptila attenboroughi – described in 2013
Iquitos gnatcatcher, Polioptila clementsi – described in 2005
Slate-throated gnatcatcher, Polioptila schistaceigula
Masked gnatcatcher, Polioptila dumicola

References

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. 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. Volume 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, eds. (2019). "Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, hyliotas, wrens, gnatcatchers". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 January 2019.

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[1] Sclater, P.L. (1855). "On the genus Culicivora of Swainson, and its component species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 23: 11–12.

[2] Baird, Spencer Fullerton (1864). Review of American birds, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1, North and Middle America. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. p. 67.

[3] Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 448.

[hbwkey-4] 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.

[ioc-5] Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, hyliotas, wrens, gnatcatchers". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 January 2019.