Chaetocercus
Appearance
Chaetocercus | |
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Female gorgeted woodstar (Chaetocercus heliodor) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Mellisugini |
Genus: | Chaetocercus G.R. Gray, 1855 |
Type species | |
Ornismya jourdanii (rufous-shafted woodstar) Bourcier, 1839
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Synonyms | |
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Chaetocercus is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.
Taxonomy
The genus Chaetocercus was introduced in 1855 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray with the rufous-shafted woodstar as the type species.[1][2] The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek words khaitē, meaning "hair" and kerkos, meaning "tail".[3]
The genus contains six species:[4]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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White-bellied woodstar | Chaetocercus mulsant (Bourcier, 1843) |
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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Little woodstar | Chaetocercus bombus Gould, 1871 |
Colombia, Ecuador and Peru |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
NT
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Gorgeted woodstar | Chaetocercus heliodor (Bourcier, 1840) Two subspecies
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Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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Santa Marta woodstar | Chaetocercus astreans (Bangs, 1899) |
Colombia |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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Esmeraldas woodstar | Chaetocercus berlepschi (Simon, 1889) |
Ecuador |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
VU
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Rufous-shafted woodstar
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Chaetocercus jourdanii (Bourcier, 1839) Three subspecies
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Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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All these species, except for the rufous-shafted woodstar, were formerly placed in the genus Acestrura.[5] In 1999 Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann remarked in the Handbook of the Birds of the World that for the species placed in Acestrura: "...no evidence in external morphology justifies treatment in a genus separate from C. jourdanii".[6]
References
- ^ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 22.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 140.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 139.
- ^ Schuchmann, K.L. (1999). "Genus Chaetocercus". In del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions. p. 677. ISBN 978-84-87334-25-2.