Atelornis

Atelornis
Pitta-like ground roller
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Brachypteraciidae
Genus:
Pucheran, 1846

Atelornis is a small genus of birds in the ground-roller family Brachypteraciidae. The genus is endemic to Madagascar.[1]

Species

There are two species:

Genus Atelornis – Pucheran, 1846 – two species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Rufous-headed ground roller

Atelornis crossleyi
Sharpe, 1875 		Madagascar. Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 NT 


Pitta-like ground roller

Atelornis pittoides
Lafresnaye, 1834 		Madagascar. Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 



References

  1. ^ Zoology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of (1892). Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Picariœ, Coraciœ (contin.) and Halcyones, with the families Leptosomatidœ, Coraciidœ, Meropidœ,Alcedinidœ, Momotidœ, Todidœ, and Coliidœ, by R.B. Sharpe. Bucerotes and Trogones, by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant. order of the Trustees. pp. 7–12.


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