Aethopyga | |
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Vigors's sunbird from Maharashtra, India | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Nectariniidae |
Genus: | Aethopyga Cabanis, 1851 |
Type species | |
Certhia siparaja (Crimson sunbird) Raffles, 1822 | |
Species | |
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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.
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]
The genus contains 20 species: [5]
Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Grey-hooded sunbird | Aethopyga primigenia | Philippines. | |
Apo sunbird | Aethopyga boltoni | Philippines. | |
Lina's sunbird | Aethopyga linaraborae | Mindanao in the Philippines | |
Flaming sunbird | Aethopyga flagrans | northern Philippines. | |
Maroon-naped sunbird | Aethopyga guimarasensis | Philippines (Negros Island, Panay and Guimaras). | |
Metallic-winged sunbird | Aethopyga pulcherrima | Philippines. | |
Elegant sunbird | Aethopyga duyvenbodei | Indonesia | |
Lovely sunbird | Aethopyga shelleyi | Philippines. | |
Handsome sunbird | Aethopyga bella | Philippines. | |
Mrs. Gould's sunbird | Aethopyga gouldiae | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, India, Vietnam and Southern China. | |
Green-tailed sunbird | Aethopyga nipalensis | Indian subcontinent, stretching eastwards into parts of Southeast Asia. | |
White-flanked sunbird | Aethopyga eximia | Indonesia. | |
Fork-tailed sunbird | Aethopyga christinae | China, Hong Kong, Laos, and Vietnam. | |
Black-throated sunbird | Aethopyga saturata | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam. | |
Crimson sunbird | Aethopyga siparaja | India, through Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar to Indonesia and Brunei. | |
Magnificent sunbird | Aethopyga magnifica | Negros Island, Panay, Cebu, Tablas Island and Romblon. | |
Vigors's sunbird | Aethopyga vigorsii | Western Ghats of India. | |
Javan sunbird | Aethopyga mystacalis | Java and Bali, Indonesia. | |
Temminck's sunbird | Aethopyga temminckii | Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia, and south west Thailand | |
Fire-tailed sunbird | Aethopyga ignicauda | Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Tibet. | |
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