Saucerottia

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Saucerottia
Copper-rumped hummingbird (Saucerottia tobaci)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Tribe: Trochilini
Genus: Saucerottia
Bonaparte, 1850
Type species
Trochilus saucerrottei (steely-vented hummingbird)
Species

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Saucerottia is a

Trochilidae
, or hummingbirds.

Species

The species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in

monophyletic genera, these species were placed in the resurrected genus Saucerottia.[2][3] The genus had been introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte with the steely-vented hummingbird as the type species.[4][5] The genus name is from the specific epithet saucerrottei for the steely-vented hummingbird. The epithet was coined in 1846 by Adolphe Delattre and Jules Bourcier to honour the French physician and ornithologist Antoine Constant Saucerotte.[6]

The genus contains eleven species:[2]

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