Biology:Chaetocercus

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Short description: Genus of birds

Chaetocercus
Gorgeted Woodstar female JCB.jpg
Female gorgeted woodstar (Chaetocercus heliodor)
Scientific classification e
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
  • Acestrura Gould, 1861

Chaetocercus is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.

Taxonomy

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]

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]

References

  1. Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 22. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17136642. 
  2. Peters, James Lee, ed (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 140. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480151. 
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n98/mode/1up. 
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (August 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/. 
  5. Peters, James Lee, ed (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 139. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480150. 
  6. Schuchmann, K.L. (1999). "Genus Chaetocercus". in del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.. Handbook of the Birds of the World. 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions. pp. 677. ISBN 978-84-87334-25-2. https://archive.org/details/handbookofbirdso0005unse/page/677/mode/1up. 

Wikidata ☰ Q595643 entry