Biology: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 |
| 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 molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the large genus was polyphyletic.[9] In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, species were moved to Leucolia, Saucerottia, Amazilis, Uranomitra, Chrysuronia, Polyerata, Chionomesa, Elliotomyia and Chlorestes.[4][10]
References
- ↑ "Trochilidae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=80.
- ↑ Lesson, René (1843). "Ornithologie: Complément à l'histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches" (in French). L'Echo du Monde Savant Part 2 (32): Col. 755–758 (757). https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47080765.
- ↑ Lesson, René P.; Garnot, Prosper (1827) (in French). Voyage autour du monde : exécuté par ordre du roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824, et 1825. 1, Livre 4. Plate 31, Fig 3. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38768586. For the date of publication see: Dickinson, E.C.; Overstreet, L.K.; Dowsett, R.J.; Bruce, M.D. (2011). Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers. Northampton, UK: Aves Press. pp. 122–123. ISBN 978-0-9568611-1-5. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267763194.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (August 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/.
- ↑ Lesson, René P. (1828) (in French). Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Description des genres et des principales espèces d'oiseaux. 2. Paris: Roret. p. 81. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53285594.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n43/mode/1up.
- ↑ 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]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1964119.
- ↑ Peters, James Lee, ed (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 61. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480072.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Stiles, F.G.; Remsen, J.V. Jr.; Mcguire, J.A. (2017). "The generic classification of the Trochilini (Aves: Trochilidae): Reconciling taxonomy with phylogeny". Zootaxa 4353 (3): 401–424. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4353.3.1. PMID 29245495. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321277435.
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