Basilinna (bird)

Basilinna is a genus of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae.

Basilinna
White-eared hummingbird, Basilinna leucotis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Tribe: Trochilini
Genus: Basilinna
F. Boie, 1831
Species

2, see text

Species

The genus contains only two species:[1]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
B. leucotisWhite-eared hummingbirdsoutheastern Arizona, southern New Mexico, and western Texas through the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental of northern Mexico and the Cordillera Neovolcanica of southern Mexico to southern Nicaragua
B. xantusiiXantus's hummingbirdsouthern Baja Peninsula of Mexico

References

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