Eupherusa

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Eupherusa
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Oaxaca hummingbird, Eupherusa cyanophrys
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Tribe: Trochilini
Genus: Eupherusa
Gould, 1857
Type species
Ornismya eximia [1]
DeLattre, 1843
Species

5, see text

Eupherusa is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae. It contains the following five species: [2]

Genus Eupherusa Gould, 1857 – five species
Common nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Mexican woodnymph

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Eupherusa ridgwayi
(Nelson, 1900)
west Mexico
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 VU 


Oaxaca hummingbird

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Eupherusa cyanophrys
Rowley & Orr, 1964
Sierra Madre del Sur in the Mexican state of Oaxaca
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 EN 


Stripe-tailed hummingbird

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Eupherusa eximia
(Delattre, 1843)
southeastern Mexico to Panama.
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 LC 


Black-bellied hummingbird

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Eupherusa nigriventris
Lawrence, 1868
Costa Rica and Panama
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 LC 


White-tailed hummingbird


Eupherusa poliocerca
Elliot, 1871
Sierra Madre del Sur in Guerrero and extreme western Oaxaca, Mexico
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 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. [3] Based on this result the Mexican woodnymph is now placed in Eupherusa. [2]

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References

  1. "Trochilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
  2. 1 2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  3. 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 .