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Jacobin (hummingbird)

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Jacobin (hummingbird)
Black jacobin, (Florisuga fusca)
Scientific classification Edit this 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
Species

2, see text

The jacobins are two species of hummingbirds in the genus Florisuga.

Taxonomy

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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]


Genus Florisuga Linnaeus, 1758 – two species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
White-necked jacobin


Male
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Female

Florisuga mellivora
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Two subspecies
  • F. m. mellivora Linnaeus (1758)
  • F. m. flabellifera Gould (1846)
Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Map of range
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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

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  1. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 162. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  2. ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 21.
  3. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 January 2020.