Chaetocercus

Chaetocercus
Female gorgeted woodstar (Chaetocercus heliodor)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Tribe: Mellisugini
Genus: Chaetocercus
G.R. Gray, 1855
Type species
Ornismya jourdanii (rufous-shafted woodstar)
Bourcier, 1839
Synonyms

Chaetocercus is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.

Taxonomy

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The genus Chaetocercus was introduced in 1855 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray with the rufous-shafted woodstar as the type species.[1][2] The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek words khaitē, meaning "hair" and kerkos, meaning "tail".[3]

The genus contains six species:[4]


Genus Chaetocercus – G.R. Gray, 1855 – six species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
White-bellied woodstar


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Female

Chaetocercus mulsant
(Bourcier, 1843) 		Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
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Diet: 		 LC 


Little woodstar


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Female

Chaetocercus bombus
Gould, 1871 		Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
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Diet: 		 NT 


Gorgeted woodstar


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Female

Chaetocercus heliodor
(Bourcier, 1840)

Two subspecies
  • C. h. heliodor
  • C. h. cleavesi
Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela
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Diet: 		 LC 


Santa Marta woodstar


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Female

Chaetocercus astreans
(Bangs, 1899) 		Colombia
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Diet: 		 LC 


Esmeraldas woodstar

Chaetocercus berlepschi
(Simon, 1889) 		Ecuador
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Diet: 		 VU 


Rufous-shafted woodstar


Chaetocercus jourdanii
(Bourcier, 1839)

Three subspecies
 Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
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Diet: 		 LC 


All these species, except for the rufous-shafted woodstar, were formerly placed in the genus Acestrura.[5] In 1999 Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann remarked in the Handbook of the Birds of the World that for the species placed in Acestrura: "...no evidence in external morphology justifies treatment in a genus separate from C. jourdanii".[6]

References

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  1. ^ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 22.
  2. ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 140.
  3. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
  5. ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 139.
  6. ^ Schuchmann, K.L. (1999). "Genus Chaetocercus". In del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions. p. 677. ISBN 978-84-87334-25-2.


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