Cayenne Nightjar
Setopagis maculosa(Todd, WEC, 1920)
English (US) Cayenne Nightjar
The Cayenne Nightjar (Setopagis maculosa) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Caprimulgidae (Nightjars and Nighthawks) in the order Caprimulgiformes.
Range: known only from a 1917 specimen from French GuianaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Setopagis maculosa
- Order
- Caprimulgiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Data Deficient
- English (US)
- Cayenne Nightjar
- Described by
- (Todd, WEC, 1920)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Nyctipolus maculosus
- Described by
- (Todd, WEC, 1920)
- Type locality
- Tamanoir, Cayenne.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 33 p.74
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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