Pseudibis
Appearance
Pseudibis | |
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Pseudibis papillosa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Pelecaniformes |
Family: | Threskiornithidae |
Subfamily: | Threskiornithinae |
Genus: | Pseudibis Hodgson, 1844 |
Type species | |
Ibis papillosa[1] Temminck, 1824
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Species | |
The bird genus Pseudibis consists of three South-East Asian species in the ibis subfamily, Threskiornithinae.
Genus Pseudibis
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Pseudibis papillosa | Red-naped ibis | Indian Subcontinent | |
Pseudibis davisoni | White-shouldered ibis | Southeast Asia from Myanmar to Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and north into Yunnan in China | |
Pseudibis gigantea | Giant Ibis | Northern Cambodia, with a few birds surviving in extreme southern Laos |
The white-shouldered ibis is critically endangered.
References
[edit]- ^ "Threskiornithidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27.