Selasphorus

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Selasphorus
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Female broad-tailed hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) at nest
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Subfamily: Trochilinae
Tribe: Mellisugini
Genus: Selasphorus
Swainson, 1832
Type species
Selasphorus rufus
Gmelin, 1788
Species

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Synonyms [1]
  • Atthis Reichenbach, 1854
  • Stellula Gould, 1861

Selasphorus is a genus of hummingbirds from Middle and North America.

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Taxonomy

The genus Selasphorus was introduced in 1832 by the English naturalist William John Swainson to accommodate the rufous hummingbird which is now the type species. [2] [3] The name combines the Ancient Greek selas meaning "light" or "flame" with -phoros meaning "-carrying". [4]

The genus contains the following nine species: [5]

Genus Selasphorus – Swainson, 1832 – nine species
Common nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Glow-throated hummingbird

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Selasphorus ardens
Salvin, 1870		western Panama
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Diet:		  EN 


Calliope hummingbird

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Selasphorus calliope
(Gould, 1847)		California to British Columbia, and migrates to the Southwestern United States, Mexico
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Diet:		  LC 


Wine-throated hummingbird

Wine-throated Hummingbird (Atthis ellioti).jpg

Selasphorus ellioti
(Ridgway, 1878)

Two subspecies
  • S. e. ellioti
  • S. e. selasphoroides
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.
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Diet:		  LC 


Volcano hummingbird

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Selasphorus flammula
(Salvin, 1865)

Three subspecies
  • S. f. flammula
  • S. f. torridus
  • S. f. simoni
Costa Rica and western Panama.
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Diet:		  LC 


Bumblebee hummingbird

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Selasphorus heloisa
(Lesson & Delattre, 1839)

Two subspecies
  • S. h. heloisa
  • S. h. margarethae
Mexico
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Diet:		  LC 


Broad-tailed hummingbird

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Selasphorus platycercus
(Swainson, 1827)		western United States and Western Canada to Mexico and Guatemala.
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Diet:		  LC 


Rufous hummingbird

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Selasphorus rufus
(Gmelin, JF, 1788)		western United States and Mexican state of Guerrero
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Diet:		  NT 


Allen's hummingbird

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Selasphorus sasin
(Lesson, RP, 1829)

Two subspecies
  • S. s. sasin (Lesson, R, 1829)
  • S. s. sedentarius Grinnell, 1929
coastal California from Santa Barbara north, southern coastal Oregon, and southern central Mexico.
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Diet:		  LC 


Scintillant hummingbird

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Selasphorus scintilla
(Gould, 1851)		Costa Rica and Panama
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Diet:		  LC 



The wine-throated hummingbird and the bumblebee hummingbird were formerly placed in the genus Atthis. Molecular phylogenetic studies published in 2014 and 2017 found that Atthis was embedded within Selasphorus. The genera were therefore merged and these hummingbirds were moved to Selasphorus. [5] [6] [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Selasphorus Swainson, 1832". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  2. ↑ Swainson, William John; Richardson, J. (1831). Fauna boreali-americana, or, The zoology of the northern parts of British America. Vol. Part 2. The Birds. London: J. Murray. p. 324. The title page bears the year 1831 but the volume did not appear until 1832.
  3. ↑ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 141.
  4. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 352. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  5. 1 2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David & Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  6. ↑ 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. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.016 . PMID   24704078.
  7. ↑ Licona-Vera, Yuyini & Ornelas, Juan Francisco (2017). "The conquering of North America: dated phylogenetic and biogeographic inference of migratory behavior in bee hummingbirds". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 126. doi: 10.1186/s12862-017-0980-5 . PMC   5460336 . PMID   28583078.


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