Heliodoxa | |
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male green-crowned brilliant, Heliodoxa jacula | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Heliantheini |
Genus: | Heliodoxa Gould, 1850 |
Type species | |
Trochilus leadbeateri (violet-fronted brilliant) Bourcier, 1843 |
Heliodoxa is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.
The genus Heliodoxa was introduced in 1850 by the English ornithologist John Gould.[1] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek hēlios meaning "sun" and doxa meaning "glory" or "magnificence".[2] The type species was subsequently designated by Charles Lucien Bonaparte as the violet-fronted brilliant.[3][4]
The genus contains ten species:[5]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Gould's jewelfront | Heliodoxa aurescens (Gould, 1846) | Brazil, central Ecuador and Peru | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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Brazilian ruby | Heliodoxa rubricauda (Boddaert, 1783) | Brazil(Bahia south to Rio Grande do Sul) | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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Fawn-breasted brilliant | Heliodoxa rubinoides (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) Three subspecies
| Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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Violet-fronted brilliant | Heliodoxa leadbeateri (Bourcier, 1843) Four subspecies
| Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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Velvet-browed brilliant | Heliodoxa xanthogonys Salvin & Godman, 1882 Two subspecies
| Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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Black-throated brilliant | Heliodoxa schreibersii (Bourcier, 1847) Two subspecies
| Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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Pink-throated brilliant | Heliodoxa gularis (Gould, 1860) | Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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Rufous-webbed brilliant | Heliodoxa branickii (Taczanowski, 1874) | Peru | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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Empress brilliant | Heliodoxa imperatrix (Gould, 1856) | Colombia and Ecuador | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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Green-crowned brilliant | Heliodoxa jacula (Gould, 1850) Three subspecies
| Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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Heliodoxa |
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