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Vermivora
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyParulidae
Observations recorded813,885
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 313
- With media
- 57
- Family
- Parulidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, CUMV, CLO
- Recorded in
- United States
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Vermivora is a genus of New World warblers.
==Taxonomy== The genus Vermivora was introduced in 1827 by the English zoologist William Swainson to accommodate a single species, Vermivora solitaria Swainson. This is Sylvia solitaria Wilson, 1810 which is now Vermivora cyanoptera Olson and Reveal, 2009, the blue-winged warbler. The genus name combines Latin vermis meaning "worm" with -vorus meaning "-eating".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vermivora” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.