Biology:Vermivora

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Short description: Genus of birds

Vermivora
Blue-winged Warbler.jpg
Blue-winged warbler (Vermivora cyanoptera)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Parulidae
Genus: Vermivora
Swainson, 1827
Type species
Vermivora solitaria[1]
Swainson, 1827
Species

See text.

Vermivora is a genus of New World warblers.

Species

Three species are accepted in the genus,[2] one of them probably extinct:

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Dendroica bachmanii.jpg Vermivora bachmanii Bachman's warbler Formerly southeast United States and wintering in Cuba
Vermivora cyanoptera -North Berwick, Maine, USA-8.jpg Vermivora cyanoptera Blue-winged warbler southern Ontario and the eastern United States
Golden-winged Warbler, Rock Crusher Rd., Sagola, Iron Co., MI, 21 May 2015 (18195370525).jpg Vermivora chrysoptera Golden-winged warbler south-central Canada and in the Appalachian Mountains in northeastern to north-central United States

Several additional species were formerly included in Vermivora,[3] but have now been transferred to the genus Leiothlypis:[2][4]

References

  1. "Parulidae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=197. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 IOC World Bird List Family Parulidae
  3. Sibley, D. (2000). The Sibley Field Guide to Birds. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-45122-6. https://archive.org/details/sibleyguidetobir00sibl_0. 
  4. Lovette, I. J. et al. (2010). A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny for the wood-warblers and a revised classification of the Parulidae (Aves). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57 (2): 753-770. Abstract

Wikidata ☰ Q738146 entry