Glaucis

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Glaucis
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Bronzy hermit, Glaucis aeneus
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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 nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Bronzy hermit

Bronzy Hermit (3529655516) (cropped).jpg

Glaucis aeneus
(Lawrence, 1868)
Eastern Honduras south to western Panama, and in the Chocó of western Colombia and north-western Ecuador
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 LC 



Hook-billed hermit

Glaucius dohrnii Hook-billed Hermit, Boa Nova, Bahia, Brazil.jpg

Glaucis dohrnii
(Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852)
eastern Brazil
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 VU 



Rufous-breasted hermit or hairy hermit

Rufous-breasted hermit ( Glaucis hirsutus insularum).jpg

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
Glaucis hirsutus map.svg
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 LC 


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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.