Chrysuronia is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae, all of which are native to Central and South America.
| Chrysuronia | |
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| Golden-tailed sapphire, (Chrysuronia oenone) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Tribe: | Trochilini |
| Genus: | Chrysuronia Bonaparte, 1850 |
| Type species | |
| Ornismya oenone (golden-tailed sapphire) Lesson, R, 1832
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| Species | |
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Taxonomy
editThe genus Chrysuronia was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte.[1] Bonaparte did not specify a type species but this was designated as the golden-tailed sapphire in 1855 by George Robert Gray.[2][3] The genus name is a portmanteau of the specific names of two synonyms of the golden-tailed sapphire: Ornismya chrysura Lesson, R, 1832 and Ornismia oenone Lesson, 1832.[4]
This genus formerly included only a single species, the golden-tailed sapphire. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the genera Amazilia and Lepidopyga were polyphyletic.[5] In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, Chrysuronia was broadened to include species that had previous been placed in Amazilia, Hylocharis and Lepidopyga.[6][7]
The genus now contains ten species:[6]
- Shining-green hummingbird (Chrysuronia goudoti) – formerly in Lepidopyga
- Golden-tailed sapphire (Chrysuronia oenone)
- Versicolored emerald (Chrysuronia versicolor) – formerly in Amazilia
- Mangrove hummingbird (Chrysuronia boucardi) – formerly in Amazilia
- Sapphire-throated hummingbird (Chrysuronia coeruleogularis) – formerly in Lepidopyga
- Sapphire-bellied hummingbird (Chrysuronia lilliae) – formerly in Lepidopyga
- Humboldt's sapphire (Chrysuronia humboldtii) – formerly in Hylocharis
- Blue-headed sapphire (Chrysuronia grayi) – formerly in Amazilia
- White-chested emerald (Chrysuronia brevirostris) – formerly in Amazilia
- Plain-bellied emerald (Chrysuronia leucogaster) – formerly in Amazilia
References
edit- ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1850). Conspectus Generum Avium (in Latin). Vol. 1. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p. 75.
- ^ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 23.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 55.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
- ^ Stiles, F.G.; Remsen, J.V. Jr.; Mcguire, J.A. (2017). "The generic classification of the Trochilini (Aves: Trochilidae): Reconciling taxonomy with phylogeny". Zootaxa. 4353 (3): 401–424. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4353.3. PMID 29245495.
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