Selasphorus
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| Female broad-tailed hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) at nest | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Subfamily: | Trochilinae |
| Tribe: | Mellisugini |
| Genus: | Selasphorus Swainson, 1832 |
| Type species | |
| Selasphorus rufus Gmelin, 1788 | |
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Selasphorus is a genus of hummingbirds from Middle and North America.
Taxonomy[edit]
The genus Selasphorus was introduced in 1832 by the English naturalist William John Swainson to accommodate the rufous hummingbird which is now the type species.[2][3] The name combines the Ancient Greek selas meaning "light" or "flame" with -phoros meaning "-carrying".[4]
The genus contains the following nine species:[5]
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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| Glow-throated hummingbird
| Selasphorus ardens Salvin, 1870 | western Panama | Size: Habitat: Diet: | EN
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| Calliope hummingbird
| Selasphorus calliope (Gould, 1847) | California to British Columbia, and migrates to the Southwestern United States, Mexico | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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| Wine-throated hummingbird
| Selasphorus ellioti (Ridgway, 1878) Two subspecies
| El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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| Volcano hummingbird
| Selasphorus flammula (Salvin, 1865) Three subspecies
| Costa Rica and western Panama. | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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| Bumblebee hummingbird
| Selasphorus heloisa (Lesson & Delattre, 1839) Two subspecies
| Mexico | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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| Broad-tailed hummingbird
| Selasphorus platycercus (Swainson, 1827) | western United States and Western Canada to Mexico and Guatemala. | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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| Rufous hummingbird
| Selasphorus rufus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | western United States and Mexican state of Guerrero | Size: Habitat: Diet: | NT
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| Allen's hummingbird
| Selasphorus sasin (Lesson, RP, 1829) Two subspecies
| coastal California from Santa Barbara north, southern coastal Oregon, and southern central Mexico. | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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| Scintillant hummingbird
| Selasphorus scintilla (Gould, 1851) | Costa Rica and Panama | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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The wine-throated hummingbird and the bumblebee hummingbird were formerly placed in the genus Atthis. Molecular phylogenetic studies published in 2014 and 2017 found that Atthis was embedded within Selasphorus. The genera were therefore merged and these hummingbirds were moved to Selasphorus.[5][6][7]
References[edit]
- ^ "Selasphorus Swainson, 1832". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
- ^ Swainson, William John; Richardson, J. (1831). Fauna boreali-americana, or, The zoology of the northern parts of British America. Vol. Part 2. The Birds. London: J. Murray. p. 324. The title page bears the year 1831 but the volume did not appear until 1832.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 141.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 352. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David & Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ McGuire, J.; Witt, C.; Remsen, J.V.; Corl, A.; Rabosky, D.; Altshuler, D. & Dudley, R. (2014). "Molecular phylogenetics and the diversification of hummingbirds". Current Biology. 24 (8): 910–916. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.016. PMID 24704078.
- ^ Licona-Vera, Yuyini & Ornelas, Juan Francisco (2017). "The conquering of North America: dated phylogenetic and biogeographic inference of migratory behavior in bee hummingbirds". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 126. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0980-5. PMC 5460336. PMID 28583078.
External links[edit]
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