Cacomantis | |
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Fan-tailed cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Cuculiformes |
Family: | Cuculidae |
Genus: |
Cacomantis S. Müller, 1843 |
Type species | |
Cuculus flavus
[1] = Cuculus merulinus Gmelin, 1788
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Cacomantis is a genus of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. The genus name is derived from the Greek kakos meaning evil or ill-boding and mantis for prophet and is derived from their association with "rains" being supposed to be predicted as also ill fortune and bad weather. Most of them have a round nostril and are mainly in brown and gray colours. The tails are graduated and barred. The bars are transverse in sonneratii and oblique in all others. [2]
The genus Cacomantis was introduced in 1843 by the German naturalist Salomon Müller with the plaintive cuckoo as the type species. [3] [4] The genus name is from the Ancient Greek kakomantis meaning "prophet of doom". [5]
The genus contains ten species: [6]
Cacomantis | |
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Fan-tailed cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Cuculiformes |
Family: | Cuculidae |
Genus: |
Cacomantis S. Müller, 1843 |
Type species | |
Cuculus flavus
[1] = Cuculus merulinus Gmelin, 1788
|
Cacomantis is a genus of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. The genus name is derived from the Greek kakos meaning evil or ill-boding and mantis for prophet and is derived from their association with "rains" being supposed to be predicted as also ill fortune and bad weather. Most of them have a round nostril and are mainly in brown and gray colours. The tails are graduated and barred. The bars are transverse in sonneratii and oblique in all others. [2]
The genus Cacomantis was introduced in 1843 by the German naturalist Salomon Müller with the plaintive cuckoo as the type species. [3] [4] The genus name is from the Ancient Greek kakomantis meaning "prophet of doom". [5]
The genus contains ten species: [6]