Biology:Aethopyga
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Short description: Genus of birds
Aethopyga | |
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Vigors's sunbird from Maharashtra, India | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Nectariniidae |
Genus: | Aethopyga Cabanis, 1851 |
Type species | |
Certhia siparaja (Crimson sunbird) Raffles, 1822
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Aethopyga is a genus of birds in the sunbird family Nectariniidae. Species in this genus are found in South Asia, Southeast Asia and parts of China . Many species such as the grey-hooded sunbird, Apo sunbird, metallic-winged sunbird, handsome sunbird, and Lina's sunbird are endemic to the Philippines .
Taxonomy
The genus Aethopyga was introduced in 1851 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis.[1] The name combines the Ancient Greek aithos meaning "fire" or "burning heat" with pugē meaning "rump".[2] The type species was designated as the crimson sunbird by George Robert Gray in 1855.[3][4]
Species
The genus contains 22 species:[5]
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Grey-hooded sunbird | Aethopyga primigenia | Philippines. |
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Apo sunbird | Aethopyga boltoni | Philippines. |
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Lina's sunbird | Aethopyga linaraborae | Mindanao in the Philippines |
Flaming sunbird | Aethopyga flagrans | northern Philippines. | |
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Maroon-naped sunbird | Aethopyga guimarasensis | Philippines (Negros Island, Panay and Guimaras). |
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Metallic-winged sunbird | Aethopyga pulcherrima | Philippines. |
Luzon sunbird | Aethopyga jefferyi | Philippines. | |
Bohol sunbird | Aethopyga decorosa | Bohol island (Philippines) | |
Elegant sunbird | Aethopyga duyvenbodei | Indonesia | |
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Lovely sunbird | Aethopyga shelleyi | Philippines. |
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Handsome sunbird | Aethopyga bella | Philippines. |
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Mrs. Gould's sunbird | Aethopyga gouldiae | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, India, Vietnam and Southern China. |
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Green-tailed sunbird | Aethopyga nipalensis | Indian subcontinent, stretching eastwards into parts of Southeast Asia. |
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White-flanked sunbird | Aethopyga eximia | Indonesia. |
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Fork-tailed sunbird | Aethopyga christinae | China, Hong Kong, Laos, and Vietnam. |
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Black-throated sunbird | Aethopyga saturata | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam. |
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Crimson sunbird | Aethopyga siparaja | India, through Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar to Indonesia and Brunei. |
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Magnificent sunbird | Aethopyga magnifica | Negros Island, Panay, Cebu, Tablas Island and Romblon. |
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Vigors's sunbird | Aethopyga vigorsii | Western Ghats of India. |
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Javan sunbird | Aethopyga mystacalis | Java and Bali, Indonesia. |
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Temminck's sunbird | Aethopyga temminckii | Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia, and south west Thailand |
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Fire-tailed sunbird | Aethopyga ignicauda | Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Tibet. |
References
- ↑ Cabanis, Jean (1851) (in German, Latin). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt. 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 103. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49584482.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ↑ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 19. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17136639.
- ↑ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 270. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14482387.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (January 2021). "Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/ovenbirds/. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
Wikidata ☰ Q508859 entry
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