Genus Rynchops (Noun)
Meaning
Type genus of the Rynchopidae: skimmers.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Rynchops is the genus consisting of several birds referred to as skimmers with peculiar mouth morphologies.
- The type genus of Rynchopidae family includes three different species of Rynchops skimmers.
- The Black Skimmer is the most abundant of the three species of Rynchops.
- Three Rynchops species exist today with no subspecies classification, and they belong to the skimmer family.
- Rynchops skimmers have the distinctive feature of having the lower mandible larger than the upper.