Biology:Chaetocercus
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Short description: Genus of birds
| Chaetocercus | |
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| Female gorgeted woodstar (Chaetocercus heliodor) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
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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]
- White-bellied woodstar (Chaetocercus mulsant)
- Little woodstar (Chaetocercus bombus)
- Gorgeted woodstar (Chaetocercus heliodor)
- Santa Marta woodstar (Chaetocercus astreans)
- Esmeraldas woodstar (Chaetocercus berlepschi)
- Rufous-shafted woodstar (Chaetocercus jourdanii)
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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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/.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
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