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| image_caption = [[Bronzy hermit]], ''Glaucis aeneus''
| image_caption = [[Bronzy hermit]], ''Glaucis aeneus''
| taxon = Glaucis
| taxon = Glaucis
| authority = [[Friedrich Boie|Boie]], 1831
| authority = [[Friedrich Boie|Boie]], 1831<ref>{{cite journal|author=Boie F|year=1831|url=https://archive.org/stream/isisvonoken1831oken#page/n298/mode/1up|journal=Isis (von Oken)|volume=24|pages=538–548|title=Bemerkungen über species und einige ornithologische familien und sippen}}</ref>
| type_species = ''Trochilus hirsutus'' ([[rufous-breasted hermit]])
| type_species_authority = [[Johann Friedrich Gmelin|Gmelin, SF]], 1788
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision = 3, see [[#Species in taxonomic order|text]]
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'''''Glaucis''''' is a genus of [[hummingbird]] in the family [[Trochilidae]].
'''''Glaucis''''' is a genus of [[hummingbird]] in the family [[Trochilidae]].

It contains the following three species:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2020 | title=Hummingbirds | work=IOC World Bird List Version 10.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=4 January 2020 }}</ref>
==Taxonomy==
The genus ''Glaucis'' was introduced in 1831 by the German zoologist [[Friedrich Boie]].<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Boie | first=Friedrich | author-link=Friedrich Boie | year=1831 | title=Bemerkungen über Species und einige ornithologische Familien und Sippen | journal=Isis von Oken | language=German | at=Cols 538–548 [545]| url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27512960 }}</ref> The [[type species]] was designated as the [[rufous-breasted hermit]] by [[George Robert Gray]] in 1840.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Gray | first=George Robert | author-link=George Robert Gray | year=1840 | title=A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus | location=London | publisher=R. and J.E. Taylor | page=13 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13668907 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1945 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=5 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=4 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480015 }}</ref>

The genus contains the following three species:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=January 2022 | title=Hummingbirds | work=IOC World Bird List Version 12.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=11 July 2022 }}</ref>
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Revision as of 06:58, 11 July 2022

Glaucis
Bronzy hermit, Glaucis aeneus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Subfamily: Phaethornithinae
Genus: Glaucis
Boie, 1831
Type species
Trochilus hirsutus (rufous-breasted hermit)
Species

3, see text

Glaucis is a genus of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Glaucis was introduced in 1831 by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie.[1] The type species was designated as the rufous-breasted hermit by George Robert Gray in 1840.[2][3]

The genus contains the following three species:[4]

Image Name Common name Distribution
Glaucis aeneus Bronzy hermit eastern Honduras south to western Panama, and in the Chocó of western Colombia and north-western Ecuador
Glaucis dohrnii Hook-billed hermit eastern Brazil
Glaucis hirsutus Rufous-breasted hermit or hairy hermit Panama south to Bolivia, and on Trinidad, Tobago and Grenada

References

  1. ^ Boie, Friedrich (1831). "Bemerkungen über Species und einige ornithologische Familien und Sippen". Isis von Oken (in German). Cols 538–548 [545].
  2. ^ Gray, George Robert (1840). A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus. London: R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 13.
  3. ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 4.
  4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 12.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 July 2022.