Blue-headed hummingbird

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Blue-headed hummingbird
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Blue-headed hummingbird in Morne Diablotins National Park, Dominica

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Riccordia
Species:
R. bicolor
Binomial name
Riccordia bicolor
(Gmelin, 1788)
Cyanophaia bicolor map.svg

The blue-headed hummingbird (Riccordia bicolor) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae.

Distribution and habitat[]

It is found only in Dominica and Martinique. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and heavily degraded former forest.

Taxonomy[]

It was formerly placed in the genus Chlorostilbon. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the genus Chlorostilbon was polyphyletic.[2] In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, the blue-headed hummingbird was moved to the resurrected genus Riccordia.[3][4]

References[]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Cyanophaia bicolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ^ 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. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.016. PMID 24704078.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 8 January 2020.

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