Saucerottia

Saucerottia
Copper-rumped hummingbird (Saucerottia tobaci)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Trochilini
Genus:	Saucerottia Bonaparte, 1850
Type species
Trochilus saucerrottei (steely-vented hummingbird) Delattre & Bourcier, 1846
Species
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Saucerottia is a genus of birds in the family Trochilidae, or hummingbirds.

Species

The species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in Amazilia . A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the genus Amazilia was polyphyletic. ^[1] In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, these species were placed in the resurrected genus Saucerottia. ^{[2] [3]} The genus had been introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte with the steely-vented hummingbird as the type species. ^{[4] [5]} The genus name is from the specific epithet saucerrottei for the steely-vented hummingbird. The epithet was coined in 1846 by Adolphe Delattre and Jules Bourcier to honour the French physician and ornithologist Antoine Constant Saucerotte. ^[6]

The genus contains eleven species: ^[2]

Genus Saucerottia – Bonaparte, 1850 – eleven species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Azure-crowned hummingbird	Saucerottia cyanocephala (Lesson, 1830) Two subspecies S. c. cyanocephala (Lesson, 1829) S. c. chlorostephana (Howell, 1965).	Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Blue-vented hummingbird	Saucerottia hoffmanni (Cabanis & Heine,, 1860)	Costa Rica and Nicaragua	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Berylline hummingbird	Saucerottia beryllina (Deppe, 1830) Five subspecies S. b. viola(Miller, W, 1905) S. b. beryllina(Deppe, 1830) S. b. lichtensteini(Moore, RT, 1950) S. b. sumichrasti(Salvin, 1891) S. b. devillei(Bourcier & Mulsant, 1848)	El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and the United States.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Blue-tailed hummingbird	Saucerottia cyanura (Gould, 1859)	Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Snowy-bellied hummingbird	Saucerottia edward (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) Four subspecies S. e. niveoventer(Gould, 1851) S. e. edward(Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) S. e. collata(Wetmore, 1952) S. e. margaritarum Griscom, 1927	Costa Rica and Panama with a few records in Colombia.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Steely-vented hummingbird	Saucerottia saucerottei (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) Three subspecies S. s. saucerottei S. s. warscewiczi S. s. braccata	Colombia and Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Indigo-capped hummingbird	Saucerottia cyanifrons (Bourcier, 1843)	Colombia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Chestnut-bellied hummingbird Male Female	Saucerottia castaneiventris (Gould, 1856)	Colombia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT
Green-bellied hummingbird	Saucerottia viridigaster (Bourcier, 1843)	Colombia and Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Copper-rumped hummingbird	Saucerottia tobaci (Gmelin, 1788) Seven subspecies S. t. monticola Todd, 1913 S. t. feliciae(Lesson, R, 1840) S. t. caudata(Zimmer, JT & Phelps, 1949) S. t. aliciae(Richmond, 1895) S. t. erythronotos(Lesson, R, 1829) S. t. tobaci(Gmelin, JF, 1788) S. t. caurensis Berlepsch & Hartert, E, 1902	Tobago, Trinidad, Venezuela, and possibly Grenada.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Copper-tailed hummingbird	Saucerottia cupreicauda (Salvin & Godman, 1884) Four subspecies S. v. duidae Chapman, 1929 S. v. cupreicauda(Salvin & Godman, 1884) S. v. laireti(Phelps, WH Jr & Aveledo, 1988) S. v. pacaraimae Weller, 2000	Brazil and Guyana	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

References

1. 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.
2. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
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.4353.3.1. PMID   29245495.
4. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1850). Conspectus Generum Avium (in Latin). Vol. 1. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p. 77.
5. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 68.
6. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 348. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.