Chrysococcyx
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Chrysococcyx is a genus of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae.
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Chrysococcyx | |
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Shining bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Cuculiformes |
Family: | Cuculidae |
Genus: | Chrysococcyx Boie, F, 1826 |
Type species | |
Cuculus cupreus (African emerald cuckoo) Shaw, 1792 | |
Synonyms | |
Chalcites |
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The genus Chrysococcyx was erected by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1826 with the African emerald cuckoo (Chrysococcyx cupreus) as the type species.[1][2] The name Chrysococcyx combines the Ancient Greek χρυσος khrusos meaning "gold" and κοκκυξ kokkux "cuckoo".[3]
Some authorities split the principally Australo-Papuan taxa into the genus Chalcites.[4]
The genus contains the following species:[5]
- Afro-Asian
- Diederik cuckoo (Chrysococcyx caprius)
- African emerald cuckoo (Chrysococcyx cupreus)
- Yellow-throated cuckoo (Chrysococcyx flavigularis)
- Klaas's cuckoo (Chrysococcyx klaas)
- Asian emerald cuckoo (Chrysococcyx maculatus)
- Violet cuckoo (Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus)
- Australo-Papuan
- Horsfield's bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx basalis)
- Shining bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus)
- White-eared bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx meyerii)
- Little bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx minutillus)
- Black-eared cuckoo (Chrysococcyx osculans)
- Rufous-throated bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx ruficollis)
- Long-billed cuckoo (Chrysococcyx megarhynchus)