Chaetocercus | |
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Female gorgeted woodstar (Chaetocercus heliodor) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Mellisugini |
Genus: |
Chaetocercus G.R. Gray, 1855 |
Type species | |
Ornismya jourdanii (
rufous-shafted woodstar)
Bourcier, 1839
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Synonyms | |
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Chaetocercus is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.
The genus Chaetocercus was introduced in 1855 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray with the rufous-shafted woodstar as the type species. [1] [2] The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek words khaitē, meaning "hair" and kerkos, meaning "tail". [3]
The genus contains six species: [4]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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White-bellied woodstar |
Chaetocercus mulsant (Bourcier, 1843) |
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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Little woodstar |
Chaetocercus bombus Gould, 1871 |
Colombia, Ecuador and Peru![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
NT
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Gorgeted woodstar |
Chaetocercus heliodor (Bourcier, 1840) Two subspecies
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Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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Santa Marta woodstar |
Chaetocercus astreans (Bangs, 1899) |
Colombia![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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Esmeraldas woodstar |
Chaetocercus berlepschi (Simon, 1889) |
Ecuador![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
VU
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Rufous-shafted woodstar
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Chaetocercus jourdanii (Bourcier, 1839) Three subspecies
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Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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All these species, except for the rufous-shafted woodstar, were formerly placed in the genus Acestrura. [5] In 1999 Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann remarked in the Handbook of the Birds of the World that for the species placed in Acestrura: "...no evidence in external morphology justifies treatment in a genus separate from C. jourdanii". [6]
Chaetocercus | |
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Female gorgeted woodstar (Chaetocercus heliodor) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Mellisugini |
Genus: |
Chaetocercus G.R. Gray, 1855 |
Type species | |
Ornismya jourdanii (
rufous-shafted woodstar)
Bourcier, 1839
| |
Synonyms | |
|
Chaetocercus is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.
The genus Chaetocercus was introduced in 1855 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray with the rufous-shafted woodstar as the type species. [1] [2] The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek words khaitē, meaning "hair" and kerkos, meaning "tail". [3]
The genus contains six species: [4]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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White-bellied woodstar |
Chaetocercus mulsant (Bourcier, 1843) |
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
|
Little woodstar |
Chaetocercus bombus Gould, 1871 |
Colombia, Ecuador and Peru![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
NT
|
Gorgeted woodstar |
Chaetocercus heliodor (Bourcier, 1840) Two subspecies
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Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
|
Santa Marta woodstar |
Chaetocercus astreans (Bangs, 1899) |
Colombia![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
|
Esmeraldas woodstar |
Chaetocercus berlepschi (Simon, 1889) |
Ecuador![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
VU
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Rufous-shafted woodstar
|
Chaetocercus jourdanii (Bourcier, 1839) Three subspecies
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Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
|
All these species, except for the rufous-shafted woodstar, were formerly placed in the genus Acestrura. [5] In 1999 Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann remarked in the Handbook of the Birds of the World that for the species placed in Acestrura: "...no evidence in external morphology justifies treatment in a genus separate from C. jourdanii". [6]