| Heliodoxa | |
|---|---|
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| male green-crowned brilliant, Heliodoxa jacula | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Tribe: | Heliantheini |
| Genus: | Heliodoxa Gould, 1850 |
| Type species | |
| Trochilus leadbeateri (violet-fronted brilliant) Bourcier, 1843 | |
Heliodoxa is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.
The genus Heliodoxa was introduced in 1850 by the English ornithologist John Gould. [1] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek hēlios meaning "sun" and doxa meaning "glory" or "magnificence". [2] The type species was subsequently designated by Charles Lucien Bonaparte as the violet-fronted brilliant. [3] [4]
The genus contains ten species: [5]
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gould's jewelfront | Heliodoxa aurescens (Gould, 1846) | Brazil, central Ecuador and Peru | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
| Brazilian ruby | Heliodoxa rubricauda (Boddaert, 1783) | Brazil(Bahia south to Rio Grande do Sul) | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
| Fawn-breasted brilliant | Heliodoxa rubinoides (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) Three subspecies
| Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
| Violet-fronted brilliant | Heliodoxa leadbeateri (Bourcier, 1843) Four subspecies
| Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
| Velvet-browed brilliant | Heliodoxa xanthogonys Salvin & Godman, 1882 Two subspecies
| Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
| Black-throated brilliant | Heliodoxa schreibersii (Bourcier, 1847) Two subspecies
| Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
| Pink-throated brilliant | Heliodoxa gularis (Gould, 1860) | Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
| Rufous-webbed brilliant | Heliodoxa branickii (Taczanowski, 1874) | Peru | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
| Empress brilliant | Heliodoxa imperatrix (Gould, 1856) | Colombia and Ecuador | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
| Green-crowned brilliant | Heliodoxa jacula (Gould, 1850) Three subspecies
| Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
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