Actophilornis is a genus of jacana. It contains two species restricted to Africa and its surrounding islands.
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Actophilornis is a genus of jacana. It contains two species restricted to Africa and its surrounding islands.
==Taxonomy== The genus Actophilornis was introduced in 1925 by the American ornithologist Harry C. Oberholser with the African jacana as the type species. Actophilornis was a replacement name for Actophilus which was pre-occupied. The name combines the Ancient Greek aktē meaning "river bank" or "coastal strand", -philos meaning "-loving" and ornis meaning "bird".
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).