Biology:Eupherusa

Eupherusa is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae. It contains the following five species:^[1]

Genus *Eupherusa* – Gould, 1857 – five species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Mexican woodnymph	Eupherusa ridgwayi (Nelson, 1900)	west Mexico Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU
Oaxaca hummingbird	Eupherusa cyanophrys Rowley & Orr, 1964	Sierra Madre del Sur in the Mexican state of Oaxaca	Size: Habitat: Diet:	EN
Stripe-tailed hummingbird	Eupherusa eximia (Delattre, 1843)	southeastern Mexico to Panama.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Black-bellied hummingbird	Eupherusa nigriventris Lawrence, 1868	Costa Rica and Panama	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
White-tailed hummingbird	Eupherusa poliocerca Elliot, 1871	Sierra Madre del Sur in Guerrero and extreme western Oaxaca, Mexico	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT

The Mexican woodnymph was formerly placed in the genus Thalurania with other species with "woodnymph" in their English names. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Thalurania was non-monophyletic and that the Mexican woodnymph is closely related to species in Eupherusa.^[2] Based on this result the Mexican woodnymph is now placed in Eupherusa.^[1]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
↑ McGuire, J.; Witt, C.; Remsen, J.V.; Corl, A.; Rabosky, D.; Altshuler, D.; Dudley, R. (2014). "Molecular phylogenetics and the diversification of hummingbirds". Current Biology 24 (8): 910–916. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.016. PMID 24704078. Bibcode: 2014CBio...24..910M.