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Genus of birds
"Anastomus" redirects here. Not to be confused with
Anostomus .
Openbill storks
African openbill by Huet & Prêtre
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Ciconiiformes
Family:
Ciconiidae
Genus:
Anastomus
Bonnaterre , 1791
Type species
Ardea oscitans
[1] Boddaert, 1783
Species
Synonyms
Hians Lacepede, 1799
Rhynchochasme Hermann, 1804
Empharis Rafinesque, 1815 (Nom. Nov.)
Apertirostra Drapiez, 1822
Chaenoramphe Dumont, 1817
Chaenoramphus Thon, 1830 (Emend.)
Chenoramphus Gray, 1848 (Emend.)
Hiator Reichenbach, 1852-53
The openbill storks or openbills are two
species of
stork (family Ciconiidae) in the
genus Anastomus . They are large wading
birds characterized by large bills, the mandibles of which do not meet except at the tip. This feature develops only in the adults. Both species feed predominantly on
molluscs . The roof of the upper bill is fringed with plate-like structures ("lamellae") in the
African openbill , but these are absent in the
Asian openbill .
[2]
[3]
Taxonomy
The
genus Anastomus was erected by the French naturalist
Pierre Bonnaterre in 1791.
[4] The
type species was subsequently designated as the Asian openbill (Anastomus oscitans ).
[5]
[6] The name Anastomus is from the
Ancient Greek αναστομοω anastomoō meaning "to furnish with a mouth" or "with mouth wide-opened".
[7]
There are two species of openbilled storks:
[8]
References
^
"Ciconiidae" . aviansystematics.org . The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27 .
^ Beddard, F. E. (1901).
"Some Notes upon the Anatomy and Systematic Position of the Ciconiine Genus Anastomus" . Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . 70 (2): 365–371.
doi :
10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08551.x .
^ Kahl, MP (1971). "Food and feeding behavior of Openbill Storks". Journal of Ornithology . 112 (1): 21–35.
doi :
10.1007/BF01644077 .
S2CID
1484358 .
^
Bonnaterre, Pierre Joseph ;
Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1823).
Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature: Ornithologie (in French). Vol. Part 1. Paris: Panckoucke. p. xciii. Although the title page bears the date of 1823 the section (livraison ) containing the description was published in 1791. See:
Dickinson, E.C. ; Overstreet, L.K.; Dowsett, R.J.; Bruce, M.D. (2011).
Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers . Northampton, UK: Aves Press. p. 78.
ISBN
978-0-9568611-1-5 .
^
Gray (1841).
A List of the Genera of Birds : with their Synonyma and an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus (2nd ed.). London: R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 87.
^
Mayr, Ernst ; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979).
Check-list of Birds of the World . Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 246–247.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010).
The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. p.
46 .
ISBN
978-1-4081-2501-4 .
^
Gill, Frank ; Donsker, David, eds. (2019).
"Storks, frigatebirds, boobies, cormorants, darters" . World Bird List Version 9.2 . International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 July 2019 .
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