Chordeiles acutipennis acutipennis

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Chordeiles acutipennis (Hermann) 1783

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: June 24, 1996.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Chordeiles

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 20 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. acutipennis (Sharp-Winged Nighthawk) · C. acutipennis acutipennis (Lesser Nighthawk) · C. acutipennis inferior (Lesser Nighthawk) · C. acutipennis texensis (Lesser Nighthawk) · C. gundlachii (Antillean Nighthawk) · C. gundlachii gundlachii (Antillean Nighthawk) · C. minor (Long-Winged Goatsucker) · C. minor aserriensis (Common Nighthawk) · C. minor chapmani (Common Nighthawk) · C. minor henryi (Common Nighthawk) · C. minor hesperis (Common Nighthawk) · C. minor howelli (Common Nighthawk) · C. minor minor (Common Nighthawk) · C. minor sennetti (Common Nighthawk) · C. minor vicinus (Common Nighthawk) · C. nacunda (Nacunda Nighthawk) · C. pusillus (Least Nighthawk) · C. pusillus pusillus (Least Nighthawk) · C. rupestris (Sand-Coloured Nighthawk) · C. rupestris rupestris (Sand-Coloured Nighthawk)

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Further Reading

• A contribution to the ornithology of northeastern Brazil, by Charles E. Hellmayr. 12 1929 Chicago, 1929. url p. 403.
• A monograph of the genus Chordeiles Swainson: type of a new family of goatsuckers / Washington: G.P.O., 1914. url , , , , , , , , , , .
• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 218, p. 588.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , , p. 100, p. 102, p. 105, p. 110, p. 13, p. 14, p. 15, p. 24, p. 561, p. 89, p. 90, p. 91, p. 99.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. including all species and subspecies known to occur in North America, Mexico, Central America, South America, the West Indies, and islands of the Caribbean Sea, the Galapagos Archipelago, and other is by Charles E. Hellmayr and Boardman Conover. 13 1918 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1918. url p. 120.
• Check-list of North American birds, New York, American ornithologists' union, 1910. url .
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 187.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 156.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 576, p. 660.
• Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, U.S.A.: The Museum, 1910-1943. url p. 120.
• The birds of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other island Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1901- url .
• The birds of the Santa Marta region of Colombia: a study in altitudinal distribution. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1922 url , .
• The distribution of bird-life in Colombia; a contribution to a biological survey of South America, New York, Pub. by order of the trustees, 1917. url , , , .
• Zoologica; scientific contributions of the New York Zoological Society. New York. url p. 103, p. 230.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 31, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 14, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• NatureServe. 2003. Downloadable animal data sets. NatureServe Central Databases. Accessed February 6, 2005.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2764247
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-177991
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13888854
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 177991
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 8571

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