Selasphorus

Selasphorus
	Female broad-tailed hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) at nest
Scientific classification
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
	See text
Synonyms
	Atthis Reichenbach, 1854 ; Stellula Gould, 1861 ;

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

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 name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Glow-throated hummingbird	Selasphorus ardens Salvin, 1870	western Panama	Size: Habitat: Diet:	EN
Calliope hummingbird Male Female	Selasphorus calliope (Gould, 1847)	California to British Columbia, and migrates to the Southwestern United States, Mexico	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Wine-throated hummingbird	Selasphorus ellioti (Ridgway, 1878) Two subspecies S. e. ellioti S. e. selasphoroides	El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Volcano hummingbird Male Female	Selasphorus flammula (Salvin, 1865) Three subspecies S. f. flammula S. f. torridus S. f. simoni	Costa Rica and western Panama.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Bumblebee hummingbird Male Female	Selasphorus heloisa (Lesson & Delattre, 1839) Two subspecies S. h. heloisa S. h. margarethae	Mexico	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Broad-tailed hummingbird Male Female	Selasphorus platycercus (Swainson, 1827)	western United States and Western Canada to Mexico and Guatemala.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Rufous hummingbird Male Female	Selasphorus rufus (Gmelin, JF, 1788)	western United States and Mexican state of Guerrero	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT
Allen's hummingbird Male Female	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.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Scintillant hummingbird Male Female	Selasphorus scintilla (Gould, 1851)	Costa Rica and Panama	Size: Habitat: 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]

References

^ "Selasphorus Swainson, 1832". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
^ 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.
^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 141.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 352. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^ ^a ^b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David & Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
^ 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.
^ 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. Bibcode:2017BMCEE..17..126L. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0980-5. PMC 5460336. PMID 28583078.

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[ITIS-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.

[ioc-5] Gill, Frank; Donsker, David & Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 January 2020.

[mcguire2014-6] 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. Bibcode:2014CBio...24..910M. 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. Bibcode:2017BMCEE..17..126L. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0980-5. PMC 5460336. PMID 28583078.

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Selasphorus

Female broad-tailed hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) at nest
Scientific classification
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
See text
Synonyms^[1]
Atthis Reichenbach, 1854 Stellula Gould, 1861