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Genus of birds
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]
An additional species is sometimes included:
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" . aviansystematics.org . The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05 .
^
Lesson, René (1843).
"Ornithologie: Complément à l'histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches" . L'Echo du Monde Savant (in French). Part 2 (32). Col. 755–758 (757).
^
Lesson, René P. ;
Garnot, Prosper (1827).
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 (in French). Vol. 1, Livre 4. Plate 31, Fig 3. 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 .
^
a
b
c
Gill, Frank ; Donsker, David;
Rasmussen, Pamela , eds. (August 2022).
"Hummingbirds" . IOC World Bird List Version 12.2 . International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 September 2022 .
^
Lesson, René P. (1828).
Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Description des genres et des principales espèces d'oiseaux (in French). Vol. 2. Paris: Roret. p. 81.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010).
The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. p. 43.
ISBN
978-1-4081-2501-4 .
^
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].
^
Peters, James Lee , ed. (1945).
Check-List of Birds of the World . Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 61.
^ 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 .