Amazilia
| Amazilia | |
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| Rufous-tailed hummingbird, Amazilia tzacatl | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Tribe: | Trochilini |
| Genus: | Amazilia Lesson, RP , 1843
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| Type species | |
| Ornismya cinnamomea[1] = Ornismia rutila Lesson, 1842
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Amazilia is a hummingbird genus in the subfamily Trochilinae. It is found in tropical Central and South America.
Taxonomy
The genus Amazilia was introduced in 1843 by the French naturalist René Lesson.[2] Lesson had used amazilia in 1827 as the specific epithet of the amazilia hummingbird which is now the only species placed in the genus Amazilis.[3][4] The name comes from the Inca heroine in Jean-François Marmontel's novel Les Incas, ou la destruction de l'Empire du Pérou.[5][6] The type species was subsequently designated as the cinnamon hummingbird.[7][8]
The genus contains five species:[4]
- Cinnamon hummingbird, Amazilia rutila
- Buff-bellied hummingbird, Amazilia yucatanensis
- Rufous-tailed hummingbird, Amazilia tzacatl
- Honduran emerald, Amazilia luciae
- Mangrove hummingbird, Amazilia boucardi
An additional species is sometimes included:
- Guanacaste hummingbird, Amazilia alfaroana (disputed)
This genus formerly included many more species. A
References
- ^ "Trochilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ^ Lesson, René (1843). "Ornithologie: Complément à l'histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches". L'Echo du Monde Savant (in French). Part 2 (32). Col. 755–758 (757).
- ISBN 978-0-9568611-1-5.
- ^ Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
- ^ Lesson, René P. (1828). Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Description des genres et des principales espèces d'oiseaux (in French). Vol. 2. Paris: Roret. p. 81.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Stone, Witmer (1918). "Birds of the Panama Canal Zone, with special reference to a collection made by Mr. Lindsey L. Jewel". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 70: 239–280 [256].
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 61.
- PMID 24704078.
- PMID 29245495.