Attagis

{{short description|Genus of birds}}

{{automatic taxobox

| taxon = Attagis

| image = AttagisChimborazensisSmit.jpg

| authority = Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. & Lesson, RP, 1831

| type_species = Attagis gayi{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=58 |title= Thinocoridae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-27}}

| type_species_authority = I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Lesson, 1831

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

}}

Attagis is a genus of seedsnipe, a South American family of small gregarious waders which have adapted to a vegetarian diet.

These birds look superficially like partridges in structure and bill shape. They have short legs and long wings. Their 2-3 eggs are laid in a shallow scrape on the ground.

The genus was erected by the French ornithologists Isidore Saint-Hilaire and René Lesson in 1831 with the rufous-bellied seedsnipe (Attagis gayi) as the type species.{{ cite book | last1=Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire | first1=Isidore | author1-link=Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire | last2=Lesson | first2=René | author2-link=René Lesson | year=1831 | title=Centurie Zoologique | language=fr | pages=130, 135 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28724675 }}{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1934 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=2 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=306 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483119 }} The name Attagis is the word used for a game bird in Ancient Greek texts. It probably referred to the black francolin (Francolinus francolinus).{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url=https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn= 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n60 60] }}

Species

The genus contains two species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Grebes, flamingos, buttonquail, plovers, painted-snipes, jacanas, plains-wanderer, seedsnipes | work=World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/grebes/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=19 July 2019 }}

{{Species table |genus=Attagis |authority-name=Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. & Lesson, RP|authority-year= 1831 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

{{Species table/row

|name=Rufous-bellied seedsnipe |binomial=Attagis gayi

|image=File:Rufous-bellied Seedsnipe (Attagis gayi) - Papallacta - Ecuador.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I & Lesson, RP |authority-year=1831 |authority-not-original=

|range= Andes of South America south from Ecuador.

|range-image=File:Attagis gayi map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= LC

|population=

|direction=

|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Three subspecies |bullets=on

|A. g. gayi

|A. g. latrelillii

|A. g. simonsi

}}

}}

{{Species table/row

|name=White-bellied seedsnipe |binomial=Attagis malouinus

|image=File:Attagis malouinus 55242949.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Boddaert |authority-year=1783 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= southwestern Argentina and Tierra del Fuego.

|range-image=File:Attagis malouinus map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= LC

|population=

|direction=

|subspecies=

}}

{{Species table/end}}

These are the larger of the four seedsnipe species.

References

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  • Shorebirds by Hayman, Marchant and Prater {{ISBN|0-395-60237-8}}

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Category:Bird genera

Category:Birds of the Andes

Category:Taxa named by René Lesson