The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Phoenicorodias
(Phoenicopteridae; syn. Phoenicopterus † American Flamingo P. ruber) Gr. φοινιξ phoinix, φοινικος phoinikos crimson, red; ερωδιος erōdios heron; "Figure 7 exhibits the bill of the Florida species (kindly sent me by Professor Baird), which is robust in its general form ... This species may constitute a distinct subgenus under the appellation of Phœnicorodias" (G. Gray 1869); "Phoenicorodias G. R. Gray, Ibis, (n.s.), 5, pp. 441, 443, Oct., 1869—type, by monotypy, Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1948, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (2), p. 273).
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