Riccordia
| Riccordia | |
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| Cuban emerald, (Riccordia ricordii) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Tribe: | Trochilini |
| Genus: | Riccordia Reichenbach, 1854 |
| Type species | |
| Ornismya ricordii Gervais, 1835
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| Species | |
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5, see text | |
Riccordia is a
Trochilidae
. They are endemic to the Caribbean.
Species
The species now placed in this
monotypic Cyanophaia, were moved to the resurrected genus Riccordia that had been introduced in 1854 by the German ornithologist Ludwig Reichenbach with the Cuban emerald as the type species.[2][3][4] The two extinct species, Brace's emerald and Gould's emerald, were not included in the phylogenetic studies and thus their placement is uncertain.[3][4] Reichenbach based the genus name on the specific epithet of the type species, recordii, which had been chosen by Paul Gervais to honour the French surgeon-naturalist Alexandre Ricord (born 1798).[5]
The genus contains five species, of which one is extinct:[4]
- Blue-headed hummingbird, Riccordia bicolor
- Puerto Rican emerald, Riccordia maugaeus
- Cuban emerald, Riccordia ricordii
- Hispaniolan emerald, Riccordia swainsonii
- † Brace's emerald, Riccordia bracei
References
- PMID 24704078.
- ^ Reichenbach, Ludwig (1854). "Aufzählung der Colibris Oder Trochilideen in ihrer wahren natürlichen Verwandtschaft, nebst Schlüssel ihrer Synonymik". Journal für Ornithologie (Supplement) (in German). 1: 1–24 [8].
- ^ PMID 29245495.
- ^ Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 12.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.