Biology:Saucerottia

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Short description: Genus of birds

Saucerottia
Amazilia tobaci - perched.JPG
Copper-rumped hummingbird (Saucerottia tobaci)
Scientific classification e
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)
Delattre & Bourcier, 1846
Species

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Saucerottia is a genus of birds in the family Trochilidae, or hummingbirds.

Species

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]

References

  1. 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. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 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 7 January 2020. 
  3. Stiles, F.G.; Remsen, J.V. Jr.; Mcguire, J.A. (2017). "The generic classification of the Trochilini (Aves: Trochilidae): Reconciling taxonomy with phylogeny". Zootaxa 4353 (3): 401–424. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4353.3. PMID 29245495. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321277435. 
  4. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1850) (in Latin). Conspectus Generum Avium. 1. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p. 77. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43560120. 
  5. Peters, James Lee, ed (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 68. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480079. 
  6. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 348. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n348/mode/1up. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1285732 entry