Saucerottia | |
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Copper-rumped hummingbird (Saucerottia tobaci) | |
Scientific classification
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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 | |
See text |
Saucerottia is a genus of birds in the family Trochilidae, or hummingbirds.
The species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in Amazilia. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the genus Amazilia was polyphyletic. [1] In the revised classification to create 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]
Saucerottia | |
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| |
Copper-rumped hummingbird (Saucerottia tobaci) | |
Scientific classification
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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 | |
See text |
Saucerottia is a genus of birds in the family Trochilidae, or hummingbirds.
The species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in Amazilia. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the genus Amazilia was polyphyletic. [1] In the revised classification to create 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]