Jacobin (hummingbird)

The jacobins are two species of hummingbirds in the genus Florisuga.

Jacobin (hummingbird)
Black jacobin, (Florisuga fusca)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Subfamily: Florisuginae
Genus: Florisuga
Bonaparte, 1850
Type species
Trochilus mellivorus
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

2, see text

Taxonomy

The genus Florisuga was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The name combines the Latin flos, floris meaning "flower" with sugere meaning "to suck".[1] The type species is the white-necked jacobin.[2]

The genus contains the following species:[3]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Florisuga mellivoraWhite-necked jacobinMexico, south to Peru, Bolivia and south Brazil
Florisuga fuscaBlack jacobineastern Brazil, Uruguay, eastern Paraguay, and far north-eastern Argentina

References

  1. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 162. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  2. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 21.
  3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 January 2020.


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