Glaucis

Glaucis
Bronzy hermit, Glaucis aeneus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Subfamily:	Phaethornithinae
Genus:	Glaucis Boie, F, 1831
Type species
Trochilus brasiliensis = Trochilus hirsutus Latham, 1790
Species
3, see text

Glaucis is a genus of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Glaucis was introduced in 1831 by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie. ^[1] The type species was designated as the rufous-breasted hermit by George Robert Gray in 1840. ^{[2] [3]} The genus name is from the Ancient Greek glaukos meaning "blue-grey", "glaucous" or "pale green". ^[4]

The genus contains the following three species: ^[5]

Genus Glaucis – Boie, F, 1831 – three species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Bronzy hermit	Glaucis aeneus Lawrence, 1868	Eastern Honduras south to western Panama, and in the Chocó of western Colombia and north-western Ecuador	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Hook-billed hermit	Glaucis dohrnii (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852)	eastern Brazil	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU
Rufous-breasted hermit or hairy hermit	Glaucis hirsutus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) Two subspecies G. h. insularum Hellmayr & Seilern, 1913 – Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago G. h. hirsutus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) – Panama and west Colombia through Venezuela and the Guianas to Brazil and north Bolivia	Panama south to Bolivia, and on Trinidad, Tobago and Grenada	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

References

1. Boie, Friedrich (1831). "Bemerkungen über Species und einige ornithologische Familien und Sippen". Isis von Oken (in German). 1831. Cols 538–548 [545].
2. Gray, George Robert (1840). A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus. London: R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 13.
3. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 4.
4. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 174. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 12.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 July 2022.