Puerto Rican lizard cuckoo

Puerto Rican lizard cuckoo
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Cuculiformes
Family: Cuculidae
Genus: Coccyzus
Species:
C. vieilloti
Binomial name
Coccyzus vieilloti
(Bonaparte, 1850)
Synonyms
  • Saurothera vieilloti[2]
  • Vieilloti’s Ground Cuckoo[3]

The Puerto Rican lizard cuckoo (Coccyzus vieilloti) is a species of bird in the tribe Phaenicophaeini, subfamily Cuculinae of the cuckoo family Cuculidae. It is endemic to Puerto Rico.[4][5]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2022). "Puerto Rican Lizard-cuckoo Coccyzus vieilloti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T22684417A210614517. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T22684417A210614517.en. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Check-list of North and Middle American Birds". American Ornithological Society. August 2022. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  3. ^ Kendrick, S. W. (2020). Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo (Coccyzus vieilloti), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.purlic1.01 retrieved September 26, 2022
  4. ^ Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P., eds. (August 2022). "Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse". IOC World Bird List. v 12.2. Retrieved August 8, 2022.
  5. ^ HBW and BirdLife International (2021) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world. Version 6. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v6_Dec21.zip retrieved August 7, 2022