Genus of birds
Saucerottia is a genus of birds in the family Trochilidae , or hummingbirds.
The species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in Amazilia . A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the genus Amazilia was polyphyletic .[ 1] In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, these species were placed in the resurrected genus Saucerottia .[ 2] [ 3] The genus had been introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte with the steely-vented hummingbird as the type species .[ 4] [ 5] The genus name is from the specific epithet saucerrottei for the steely-vented hummingbird. The epithet was coined in 1846 by Adolphe Delattre and Jules Bourcier to honour the French physician and ornithologist Antoine Constant Saucerotte .[ 6]
The genus contains eleven species:[ 2]
Azure-crowned hummingbird , Saucerottia cyanocephala
Blue-vented hummingbird , Saucerottia hoffmanni
Berylline hummingbird , Saucerottia beryllina
Blue-tailed hummingbird , Saucerottia cyanura
Snowy-bellied hummingbird , Saucerottia edward
Steely-vented hummingbird , Saucerottia saucerottei
Indigo-capped hummingbird , Saucerottia cyanifrons
Chestnut-bellied hummingbird , Saucerottia castaneiventris
Green-bellied hummingbird , Saucerottia viridigaster
Copper-rumped hummingbird , Saucerottia tobaci
Copper-tailed hummingbird , Saucerottia cupreicauda
^ McGuire, J.; Witt, C.; Remsen, J.V.; Corl, A.; Rabosky, D.; Altshuler, D.; Dudley, R. (2014). "Molecular phylogenetics and the diversification of hummingbirds" . Current Biology . 24 (8): 910–916. Bibcode :2014CBio...24..910M . doi :10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.016 . PMID 24704078 .
^ a b Gill, Frank ; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela , eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds" . IOC World Bird List Version 10.2 . International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 7 January 2020 .
^ Stiles, F.G.; Remsen, J.V. Jr.; Mcguire, J.A. (2017). "The generic classification of the Trochilini (Aves: Trochilidae): Reconciling taxonomy with phylogeny" . Zootaxa . 4353 (3): 401–424. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.4353.3 . PMID 29245495 .
^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1850). Conspectus Generum Avium (in Latin). Vol. 1. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p. 77.
^ Peters, James Lee , ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World . Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 68.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. p. 348. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .