Ramosomyia

Ramosomyia
Cinnamon-sided hummingbird, (Ramosomyia wagneri)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Trochilini
Genus:	Ramosomyia M.D. Bruce & F.G. Stiles, 2021
Species
3, see text
Synonyms
Leucolia

Ramosomyia is a genus in family Trochilidae, the hummingbirds, that was created in 2021 to replace Leucolia.

Taxonomy and species list

The genus contains three species: ^[1]

Genus Ramosomyia – M.D. Bruce & F.G. Stiles, 2021 – three species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Violet-crowned hummingbird	Ramosomyia violiceps (Gould, 1859) Two subspecies R. v. violiceps R. v. ellioti	Mexico and the southwestern United States.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Green-fronted hummingbird	Ramosomyia viridifrons (Elliot, 1871)	Mexico and possibly Guatemala	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Cinnamon-sided hummingbird	Ramosomyia wagneri (Phillips, AR, 1966)	Mexico	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

These species were early placed in the genus Amazilia . A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the genus Amazilia was polyphyletic. ^[2] In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, these Mexican species were placed in the resurrected genus Leucolia by some taxonomic systems. ^[3] However, a study published in 2021 showed that Leucolia was not available because of the principle of priority. The authors proposed the new genus Ramosomyia and in mid-2022 it was adopted by the North American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society and the International Ornithological Committee. ^{[4] [5] [1]} As of that date the Clements taxonomy retains the three species in Leucolia and BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World in the earlier Amazilia. ^{[6] [7]}

References

1. Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P., eds. (August 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List. v 12.2. Retrieved August 8, 2022.
2. McGuire, J.; Witt, C.; Remsen, J.V.; Corl, A.; Rabosky, D.; Altshuler, D.; Dudley, R. (2014). "Molecular phylogenetics and the diversification of hummingbirds". Current Biology. 24 (8): 910–916. Bibcode:2014CBio...24..910M. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.016 . PMID   24704078.
3. Stiles, F.G.; Remsen, J.V. Jr.; Mcguire, J.A. (2017). "The generic classification of the Trochilini (Aves: Trochilidae): Reconciling taxonomy with phylogeny". Zootaxa. 4353 (3): 401–424. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4353.3. PMID   29245495.
4. Bruce, M.D.; Stiles, F.G. (2021). "The generic nomenclature of the emeralds, Trochilini (Apodiformes: Trochilidae): two replacement generic names required". Zootaxa. 4950 (2): 377–382. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4950.2.8. PMID   33903443. S2CID   233410575.
5. "Check-list of North and Middle American Birds". American Ornithological Society. August 2022. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
6. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ Retrieved August 25, 2021
7. HBW and BirdLife International (2021) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world. Version 6. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v6_Dec21.zip retrieved August 7, 2022