Eupherusa | |
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Oaxaca hummingbird, Eupherusa cyanophrys | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
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]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Mexican woodnymph | Eupherusa ridgwayi (Nelson, 1900) | west Mexico![]() | 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. [3] Based on this result the Mexican woodnymph is now placed in Eupherusa. [2]
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