Oreopholus
Appearance
Oreopholus | |
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Tawny-throated dotterel (Oreopholus ruficollis) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Charadriiformes |
Family: | Charadriidae |
Subfamily: | Charadriinae |
Genus: | Oreopholus Jardine & Selby, 1835 |
Species | |
Oreopholus is a genus of bird belonging to the family Charadriidae. The tawny-throated dotterel (Oreopholus ruficollis) is the only extant species, although another species, Oreopholus orcesi, is known from the Late Pleistocene of Ecuador.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Campbell, K.E. Jr. (1976). "The Late Pleistocene Avifauna of La Carolina, Southwestern Ecuador". Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 27: 155–168. doi:10.5479/si.00810266.27.155.