Amazilia hummingbirds
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The Amazilia hummingbirds ( Amazilia ) are the largest genus of the hummingbirds (Trochilidae) with 32 species .
The genus occurs in South and Central America . Only a few species occur outside of the tropical regions.
In a narrower version of the genus Amazilia , the majority of the species with the genera Saucerottia , Polyerata and Agyrtria must be separated.
species
- Andean Macilia ( Amazilia franciae )
- Beryl Lamazilie ( Amazilia beryllina )
- Blue-breasted Parrot ( Amazilia amabilis )
- Blue-green amazilie ( Amazilia rondoniae )
- Blue-headed Parrot ( Amazilia cyanocephala )
- Blue- tailed Mazilie ( Amazilia cyanura )
- Brown-bellied Amazilie ( Amazilia castaneiventris )
- Blue-capped Amazonia ( Amazilia cyanifrons )
- Brown- tailed Mazilie ( Amazilia tzacatl )
- Bronze-headed Amazonia ( Amazilia candida )
- Edward Amazonia ( Amazilia edward )
- White-bellied Amazonia ( Amazilia yucatanensis )
- Shiny Amazonia ( Amazilia versicolor )
- Glitter-throated Amazonia ( Amazilia fimbriata )
- Green-bellied Amazilie ( Amazilia viridigaster )
- Grünstirnamazilie ( Amazilia viridifrons )
- Green and White Parrot ( Amazilia viridicauda )
- Light-bellied Amazonia ( Amazilia leucogaster )
- Honduran Macilia ( Amazilia luciae )
- Kupferbürzelamazilie ( Amazilia tobaci )
- Copper-tailed amazilie ( Amazilia cupreicauda )
- Short-billed Amazonia ( Amazilia brevirostris )
- Loja Amazilie ( Amazilia alticola )
- Mangrove Macilia ( Amazilia boucardi )
- Rosenbergamazilie ( Amazilia rosenbergi )
- Rust-bellied Amazilie ( Amazilia amazilia )
- Sapphire macilia ( Amazilia lactea )
- Ornamental Amazilie ( Amazilia decora )
- Steel green amazilie ( Amazilia saucerottei )
- Violet-headed amazilie ( Amazilia violiceps )
- White-bellied Amazilie ( Amazilia chionogaster )
- Cinnamon belly amazilie ( Amazilia rutila )
- Cinnamon flank amazilie ( Amazilia wagneri )
A very well known hummingbird is the brown- tailed parrot ( Amazilia tzacatl ). This hummingbird is common from Mexico to Ecuador and Venezuela .
The copper rump amazily ( Amazilia tobaci ) ( Amazilia tobaci ) lives on the famous little "hummingbird island" Tobago as well as on the island of Trinidad and in Venezuela to the south of it . The species has dark green and shimmering copper plumage.
Etymology and history of research
As early as 1827, René Primevère Lesson and Prosper Garnot described the rust-bellied amazilia under the name Orthorhynchus Amazilia . In 1832 it was also Lesson who put the rust-bellied amazily under a group with the French common name Les Amizilis (Ornysmia amizilis). Two panels and a description by Lesson had already appeared before. It would have been George Robert Gray who used the first valid generic name Amizilis for the broad-billed hummingbird ( Cynanthus latirostris ). Ornismya amazili, a name that Lesson used in his 1832 publication, Gray had mistakenly considered a synonym for the broad-billed hummingbird. Since Cynanthus was introduced by William Swainson in 1827 , Swainson's generic name has preference. Amizilis is now considered a synonym for Cynanthus . In 1843 René Primevère Lesson introduced the new generic name Amazilia for the gold - masked hummingbird , the striped - tailed hummingbird , the cinnamon-bellied hummingbird (syn .: Ornysmia cinnamomea), the blue-throated star hummingbird (syn .: Ornymia rufula) and the longuemare sun nymph . He did not mention the rust-bellied amazilia ( Amazilia amazilia ). It was not until 1918 that Witmer Stone succeeded in resolving the confusing situation according to the International Rules for Zoological Nomenclature . The name comes from a novel by Jean-François Marmontel , who wrote about an Inca heroine named Amazili in Les Incas, Ou La Destruction De L'empire Du Pérou .
literature
- René Primevère Lesson , Prosper Garnot: Voyage autour du monde exécuté par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825, sous le ministère et conformément aux instructions de SEM Marquis de Clermont- Tonnerre, ministre de la marine; et publié sou les auspices de son excellence Mgr le Cte de Chabrol, ministre de la Marine et des colonies, par ML Dupppery, capitaine de frégate. chevalier de Saint-Louis et membre de la legion d'honaire, commandant de l'expédition . tape 1 (zoology), no. 2 . Arthus-Bertrand, Paris 1826 ( online [accessed March 21, 2016]).
- René-Primevère Lesson: Les trochilidées ou Les colibris et les oiseaux-mouches: suivis d'un index général, dans lequel sont décrites et classées méthodiquement toutes les races et espèces du genre trochilus . A. Bertrand, Paris 1832 ( online [accessed March 21, 2016]).
- René Primevère Lesson: Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches, ouvrage orné de planches desinées et gravée par les meilleurs artistes et dédié A SAR Mademoiselle 81 plates (Prêtre, Antoine Germaine Bévalet, Marie Clémence Lesson based on Louis Vieillot's Charles Vieillot, Antoine William Pierre William Vieillot , Pancrace Bessa , Elisa Zoé Dumont de Sainte Croix) . Arthus-Bertrand, Paris 1829 ( online [accessed March 21, 2016]).
- René Primevère Lesson: Complément à l'histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches . In: L'Echo du Monde Savant (= 2 ). tape 10 , no. 32 , 1843, pp. 755-758 ( online [accessed March 21, 2016]).
- George Robert Gray: A list of the genera of birds: with their synonyma an indication of the typical species of each genus. Compiled from various sources . Richard and John E. Taylor, London 1840 ( online [accessed March 21, 2016]).
- Witmer Stone: Birds of the Panama Canal Zone, with Special Reference to a Collection Made by Mr. Lindsey L. Jewel . In: Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . tape 70 , 1918, pp. 239–280 ( online [accessed March 21, 2016]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b René Primevère Lesson u. a. (1826–1830), p. 683 (plate 31, figure 3)
- ↑ René Primevère Lesson u. a. (1832), p. XXVII
- ↑ René Primevère Lesson (1834–1835), pp. 67–68, plates 12 & 13.
- ↑ George Robert Gray, p. 14.
- ↑ René Primevère Lesson u. a. (1843), column 757
- ^ Witmer Stone, p. 255.
