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Ictinia

Summary

Ictinia is a genus of birds in the family Accipitridae. It contains two species that are native to the Americas.

Ictinia
Mississippi kite, USFWS Photo
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Subfamily: Milvinae
Genus: Ictinia
Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Falco plumbeus
Species

I. mississippiensis
I. plumbea

Taxonomy and species edit

The genus Ictinia was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot to accommodate the plumbeous kite which is therefore the type species.[1][2] The name is from the Ancient Greek word iktinos for a kite.[3] The genus now contains two species.[4]

Genus Ictinia – Vieillot, 1816 – two species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Mississippi kite

 

Ictinia mississippiensis
(Wilson, A, 1811) 		United States
  		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 



Plumbeous kite

 

Ictinia plumbea
(Gmelin, JF, 1788) 		eastern Mexico to Peru, Bolivia and Argentina
  		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 




References edit

  1. ^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 24.
  2. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 295.
  3. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Hoatzin, New World vultures, Secretarybird, raptors". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 7 December 2022.