''Priotelus'' is a genus of birds in the
trogon
The trogons and quetzals are birds in the order Trogoniformes which contains only one family, the Trogonidae. The family Trogonidae contains 46 species in seven genera. The fossil record of the trogons dates back 49 million years to the Early ...
family
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to
Caribbean
The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...
islands. It contains two species:
References
* American Ornithologists' Union
Check-list of North American Birds - Trogoniformes Accessed on April 17, 2009.
* BirdLife International 2004.
Priotelus temnurus 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 28 July 2007.
Bird genera
Taxa named by George Robert Gray
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Higher-level bird taxa restricted to the West Indies
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