Heliodoxa | |
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male green-crowned brilliant, Heliodoxa jacula | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Heliantheini |
Genus: | Heliodoxa Gould, 1850 |
Type species | |
Trochilus leadbeateri (violet-fronted brilliant) Bourcier, 1843
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Heliodoxa is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.
Taxonomy[edit]
The genus Heliodoxa was introduced in 1850 by the English ornithologist John Gould.[1] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek hēlios meaning "sun" and doxa meaning "glory" or "magnificence".[2] The type species was subsequently designated by Charles Lucien Bonaparte as the violet-fronted brilliant.[3][4]
The genus contains ten species:[5]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Gould's jewelfront | Heliodoxa aurescens (Gould, 1846) |
Brazil, central Ecuador and Peru![]() |
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Brazilian ruby | Heliodoxa rubricauda (Boddaert, 1783) |
Brazil(Bahia south to Rio Grande do Sul)![]() |
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Fawn-breasted brilliant | Heliodoxa rubinoides (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) Three subspecies
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Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru![]() |
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Violet-fronted brilliant | Heliodoxa leadbeateri (Bourcier, 1843) Four subspecies
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Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela![]() |
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Velvet-browed brilliant | Heliodoxa xanthogonys Salvin & Godman, 1882 Two subspecies
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Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela![]() |
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Black-throated brilliant | Heliodoxa schreibersii (Bourcier, 1847) Two subspecies
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Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru![]() |
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Pink-throated brilliant
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Heliodoxa gularis (Gould, 1860) |
Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru![]() |
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Rufous-webbed brilliant
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Heliodoxa branickii (Taczanowski, 1874) |
Peru![]() |
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Empress brilliant | Heliodoxa imperatrix (Gould, 1856) |
Colombia and Ecuador![]() |
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Green-crowned brilliant | Heliodoxa jacula (Gould, 1850) Three subspecies
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Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama![]() |
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References[edit]
- ^ Gould, John (1849). "Description of two new species with the characters of a new genus of the Trochilidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 17 (195): 95–96. Although the title page is dated 1849, the article was not published until 1850.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 188. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1850). "Note sur les Trochilidés". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences (in French). 30: 379–383 [380].
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 87.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
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