Leptocoma

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Leptocoma
Purple-rumped Sunbird (Leptocoma zeylonica)- Male at Kolkata I IMG 1808.jpg
Male purple-rumped sunbird (Leptocoma zeylonica)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Nectariniidae
Genus: Leptocoma
Cabanis, 1851
Type species
Nectarinia hasseltii
Temminck, 1825
Species

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Leptocoma is a genus of sunbirds found from tropical South Asia to Papua New Guinea. Its members are sometimes included in Nectarinia .

The sunbirds are a group of very small Old World passerine birds which feed largely on nectar, although they will also take insects, especially when feeding young. Flight is fast and direct on their short wings. Most species can take nectar by hovering like a hummingbird, but usually perch to feed.

Taxonomy

The genus was introduced by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1850 with the type species as Nectarinia hasseltii Temminck 1825, a junior synonym of Certhia brasiliana Gmelin, JF, 1788, Van Hasselt's sunbird. [1] [2] [3] The name Leptocoma combines the Ancient Greek words leptos "delicate" or "fine" and komē "hair". [4]

Its six species in the genus are: [5]

MaleFemaleCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Irdsb 09201.jpg Female Purple-rumped sunbird in the backyard of an empty plot in Judicial Layout, Bangalore. 29 March 2016.jpg Purple-rumped sunbird Leptocoma zeylonicaIndia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
Male Crimson Backed Sunbird, crop.jpg Crimson-backed Sunbird.jpg Crimson-backed sunbird Leptocoma minimaWestern Ghats of India
Leptocoma sperata juliae 69116825, crop.jpg Leptocoma sperata juliae, femina.jpg Purple-throated sunbird Leptocoma speratathe Philippines
Leptocoma brasiliana (male) -Singapore-8.jpg Coitus sequence 7 - satisfaction - Flickr - Lip Kee.jpg Van Hasselt's sunbird Leptocoma brasilianaNortheast India, Bangladesh and Southeast Asia
Black Sunbird from Gardenia, Tomohon, crop.jpg LeptocomaaspasiaFemale, crop.jpg Black sunbird Leptocoma aspasiaeastern Indonesia and New Guinea
Copper-throated Sunbird.jpg Leptocoma calcostetha 101693876.jpg Copper-throated sunbird Leptocoma calcostethaBrunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam

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References

  1. Cabanis, Jean; Heine, Ferdinand (1850). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German and Latin). Vol. 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 104.
  2. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 223.
  3. Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 271. ISBN   978-0-9568611-2-2.
  4. Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 9 May 2018.