Basilinna (bird)

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Basilinna
Hylocharis leucotis Arizona.jpg
White-eared hummingbird, Basilinna leucotis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Tribe: Trochilini
Genus: Basilinna
F. Boie, 1831
Species

2, see text

Basilinna is a genus of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae.

Species[]

The genus contains only two species:[1]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Zafiro Oreja Blanca, White Eared Hummingbird, Hylocharis leucotis (17015994576).jpg B. leucotis White-eared hummingbird southeastern 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
Xantus's Hummingbird (Basilinna xantusii) (8079377044).jpg B. xantusii Xantus's hummingbird southern 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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