Jacobin (hummingbird)
Appearance
Jacobin (hummingbird) | |
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Black jacobin, (Florisuga fusca) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Subfamily: | Florisuginae |
Genus: | Florisuga Bonaparte, 1850 |
Type species | |
Trochilus mellivorus Linnaeus, 1758
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Species | |
2, see text |
The jacobins are two species of hummingbirds in the genus Florisuga.
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus Florisuga was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The name combines the Latin flos, floris meaning "flower" with sugere meaning "to suck".[1] The type species is the white-necked jacobin.[2]
The genus contains the following species:[3]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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White-necked jacobin | Florisuga mellivora (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. |
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Black jacobin | Florisuga fusca (Vieillot, 1817) |
eastern Brazil, Uruguay, eastern Paraguay, and far north-eastern Argentina |
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References
[edit]- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 162. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 21.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 January 2020.