Chrysococcyx
| Chrysococcyx | |
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| Shining bronze cuckoo | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Cuculiformes |
| Family: | Cuculidae |
| Genus: | Chrysococcyx F. Boie, 1826 |
| Synonyms | |
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Chalcites | |
Chrysococcyx is a genus of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. The scientific name Chrysococcyx is Greek for gold cuckoo (χρυσός,κούκος)[1] Some authorities split the principally Australo-Papuan taxa into the genus Chalcites.[2]
The genus contains the following species:
- Afro-Asian
- Dideric cuckoo (Chrysococcyx caprius)
- Pied bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx (minutillus) crassirostris)
- African emerald cuckoo (Chrysococcyx cupreus)
- Yellow-throated cuckoo (Chrysococcyx flavigularis)
- Klaas's cuckoo (Chrysococcyx klaas)
- Asian emerald cuckoo (Chrysococcyx maculatus)
- Gould's bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx (minutillus) russatus)
- Violet cuckoo (Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus)
- Australo-Papuan
- Horsfield's bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx basalis)
- Shining bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus)
- White-eared bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx meyeri)
- Little bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx minutillus)
- Black-eared cuckoo (Chrysococcyx osculans)
- Rufous-throated bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx ruficollis)
- Long-billed cuckoo (Chrysococcyx megarhynchus)
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