Editing Rynchops (section)

==Taxonomy==
The [[genus]] ''Rynchops'' was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=138 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727043}}</ref>{{efn|Linnaeus also used the spelling ''Rhyncops''.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1=David | first1=N. | last2=Dickinson | first2=E. | last3=Gregory | first3=S. | date=2009 | title=Contributions to a list of first reviser actions: ornithology | journal=Zootaxa | volume=2085 | issue=1 | pages=1–24 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2085.1.1 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268076883}}</ref>}} The genus name ''Rynchops'' is from the [[Ancient Greek]] ῥυνχος/''rhunkhos'' meaning "bill" and κοπτω/''koptō'' meaning "to cut off".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=344}}</ref> The [[type species]] is the [[black skimmer]] (''Rynchops niger'').<ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1934 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=2 | publisher=Harvard University Press | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=349 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483162}}</ref>

As in later editions of the works of [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], the correct spelling (from the [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] words {{lang|grc|ῥύνχος}} and {{lang|grc|ὤψ}}, together meaning "beak-face") should be ''rhynchops'' and this is often adopted. However, the misspelling ''rynchops'' was the one first published by Linnaeus and continues to be more commonly used.<ref>{{cite journal|title= Comment on the gender of names ending in ''-ops''| journal=Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature |volume= 24| issue=1|page=2 | year= 1967 |url=https://archive.org/stream/bulletinofzoolog24inte#page/2/mode/1up/|author=Amaral, A do}}</ref> Similarly, the gender of the Greek and Roman words is feminine and the genus was originally treated as such (''R. nigra'') but ''Rynchops'' is now usually treated as a masculine noun (''R. niger'').

===Species===
The genus contains three species.<ref>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=Noddies, gulls, terns, skimmers, skuas, auks | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/gulls/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=16 August 2021}}</ref>
{{Species table |genus=Rynchops |authority-name=[[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]]|authority-year= [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]] |species-count=three|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

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|name=Black skimmer|binomial=[[Rynchops niger]]
|image=File:Black_Skimmer_Close_Flying.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Linnaeus|authority-year= 1758|authority-not-original=
|range= Atlantic coast of North America, and from southern California to Peru in the Pacific, the Amazon basin, Atlantic coast of South America south to central Argentina
|range-image=File:Rynchops niger map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=about 40–50 cm (16–20 in) long, with a 107–127 cm (42–50 in) wingspan.
|habitat=sandbanks and sandy beaches in the Americas.
|hunting=fish prey species include ''[[Odontesthes argentinenesis]]'', ''[[Brevoortia aurea]]'', ''[[Anchoa marinii]]'', ''[[Lycengraulis grossidens]]'', ''[[Engraulis anchoita]]'', ''[[Pomatomus saltatrix]]'', ''[[Mugil cephalus]]'', ''[[Fundulus heteroclitus]]'', ''[[Anchoa mitchilli]]'', and ''[[Odontesthes incisa]]''.
|iucn-status=LC
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Three subspecies<ref>{{cite web | editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Noddies, gulls, terns, auks | work=World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/gulls/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=24 June 2019 | archive-date=8 August 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808171159/https://www.worldbirdnames.org/BOW/gulls/ | url-status=live}}</ref> |bullets=on
|''R. n. niger'' <small>([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]])</small>
|''R. n. cinerascens'' <small>([[Johann Baptist von Spix|von Spix]], 1825)</small>
|''R. n. intercedens'' <small>(Saunders, 1895)</small>
}}
}}

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|name=African skimmer|binomial=[[Rynchops flavirostris]]
|image=File:Rynchops_flavirostris.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Vieillot|authority-year= 1816|authority-not-original=
|range=Senegal to northern Congo River and southern Nile Valley, southern Tanzania to the Zambezi Valley, and then to KwaZulu-Natal Province (South Africa) and Angola
|range-image=
|range-image-size=180px
|size=about 38 cm (15 in) long, with a wingspan of 106 cm (41.7 in).
|habitat=large tropical rivers with sandbanks for nesting and roosting, lake shores, and coastal lagoons.
|hunting=mainly of fish, including ''[[Tilapia]]'', ''[[Barbus]]'', ''[[Micralestes]]'', ''[[Hepsetus]]'', ''[[Aplocheilichthys]]'', and ''[[Petrocephalus]]''.
|iucn-status=LC
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies=
}}

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|name=Indian skimmer|binomial=[[Rynchops albicollis]]
|image=File:Skimmer1.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Swainson|authority-year= 1838|authority-not-original=
|range= Pakistan in the Indus river system of Kashmir and northern and central India along the Ganges, Bangladesh and Burma and formerly occurred in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam
|range-image=
|range-image-size=180px
|size=about 40–43 cm (15.7-16.9 in) long, with a wingspan of 108 cm (42.5 in).
|habitat=large rivers and lakes, swamps and coastal wetlands such as estuaries.
|hunting=mainly fish but also small crustaceans and insect larvae.
|iucn-status=EN
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies=
}}
{{Species table/end}}