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Coragyps is a genus of New World vulture that contains the black vulture (Coragyps atratus) and two extinct relatives.

The genus Coragyps was introduced in 1853 by the French naturalist Emmanuel Le Maout to accommodate the black vulture.[1][2] The name combines the Ancient Greek korax meaning "raven" with gups meaning "vulture".[3]

One extinct species is the 'western' black vulture, Coragyps occidentalis, a larger ancestral relative of the modern species which lived in North America during much of the Pleistocene epoch; however, genetic evidence indicates that C. occidentalis may not be a true species of its own, as it is nested within the modern black vulture.[4][5][6] The other is the Cuban black vulture, Coragyps seductus, known from the Pleistocene of Cuba.[7]

References

  1. ^ Le Maout, Emmanuel (1853). Histoire naturelle des oiseaux : suivant a classification de M. Isidore Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, avec l'indication de leurs moeurs et de leurs rapports avec les arts, le commerce et l'agriculture (in French). Paris: L. Curmer. pp. 57, 66.
  2. ^ Gregory, Steven M.S. (1998). "The correct citation of Coragyps (Cathartinae) and Ardeotis (Otididae)". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 118 (2): 126–127.
  3. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. ^ Fisher, Harvey L (1944). "The skulls of the Cathartid vultures" (PDF). Condor. 46 (6): 272–296. doi:10.2307/1364013. JSTOR 1364013. Retrieved November 3, 2007.
  5. ^ Hertel, Fritz (1995). "Ecomorphological indicators of feeding behavior in Recent and fossil raptors" (PDF). Auk. 12 (4): 890–903. doi:10.2307/4089021. hdl:10211.3/138737. JSTOR 4089021. Retrieved November 3, 2007.
  6. ^ Ericson, Per G. P.; Irestedt, Martin; Zuccon, Dario; Larsson, Petter; Tison, Jean-Luc; Emslie, Steven D.; Götherström, Anders; Hume, Julian P.; Werdelin, Lars; Qu, Yanhua (2022-08-23). "A 14,000-year-old genome sheds light on the evolution and extinction of a Pleistocene vulture". Communications Biology. 5 (1): 857. doi:10.1038/s42003-022-03811-0. ISSN 2399-3642. PMC 9399080. PMID 35999361.
  7. ^ Suárez, William (May 22, 2020). "The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba". Zootaxa. 4780 (1): zootaxa.4780.1.1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4780.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33055754. S2CID 219510089.
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