Saucerottia
Saucerottia | |
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Copper-rumped hummingbird (Saucerottia tobaci) | |
Scientific 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]
- Azure-crowned hummingbird, Saucerottia cyanocephala
- Blue-vented hummingbird, Saucerottia hoffmanni
- Berylline hummingbird, Saucerottia beryllina
- Blue-tailed hummingbird, Saucerottia cyanura
- Snowy-bellied hummingbird, Saucerottia edward
- Steely-vented hummingbird, Saucerottia saucerottei
- Indigo-capped hummingbird, Saucerottia cyanifrons
- Chestnut-bellied hummingbird, Saucerottia castaneiventris
- Green-bellied hummingbird, Saucerottia viridigaster
- Copper-rumped hummingbird, Saucerottia tobaci
- Copper-tailed hummingbird, Saucerottia cupreicauda
References
- PMID 24704078.
- ^ Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
- PMID 29245495.
- ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1850). Conspectus Generum Avium (in Latin). Vol. 1. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p. 77.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 68.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.