Eleothreptus
{{short description|Genus of birds}}
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| image = Bacurau-do-rabo-branco.jpeg
| image_caption = White-winged nightjar (Eleothreptus candicans)
| taxon = Eleothreptus
| authority = Gray, GR, 1840
| type_species = Amblypterus anomalus
| type_species_authority = Gould, 1838
}}
Eleothreptus is a genus of South American nightjars in the nightjar family Caprimulgidae.
Taxonomy
The genus Eleothreptus was introduced in 1840 by the English zoologist George Gray with Amblypterus anomalus Gould, 1838, the sickle-winged nightjar, as the type species.{{ cite book | last=Gray | first=George Robert | author-link=George Robert Gray | year=1840 | title=A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus | location=London | publisher=R. and J.E. Taylor | page=7 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13668939 }} Eleothreptus was a replacement name for Amblypterus that had been used by Louis Agassiz in 1833 for a genus of fossil fishes.{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1940 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=4 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=220 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14476691 }} The genus name is from Ancient Greek ἑλεοθρεπτος/heleothreptos meaning "marsh-bred" from ἑλος/helos, ἑλεος/heleos meaning "marsh" and τρεφω/trephō meaning "to nourish".{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=Eleothreptus | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=Eleothreptus | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=24 June 2025}}
- Sickle-winged nightjar (Eleothreptus anomalus)
- White-winged nightjar (Eleothreptus candicans)
References
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Category:Taxa named by George Robert Gray
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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