Nectarinia
| Nectarinia | |
|---|---|
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| Tacazze sunbird (Nectarinia tacazze) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Nectariniidae |
| Genus: | Nectarinia Illiger, 1811 |
| Type species | |
| Certhia famosa[1] Linnaeus, 1766 | |
| Species | |
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Nectarinia is a genus of birds in the sunbird family, Nectariniidae. What species belong to it has been highly contentious for many decades. Towards the late 20th century, the dominant trend was to use it to group all "typical" sunbirds. More recently taxonomists have divided the Nectarinia into eight genera which are now considered distinct from Nectarinia: Leptocoma, Anabathmis, Chalcomitra, Cinnyris, Cyanomitra, Dreptes, Anthobaphes, and Drepanorhynchus.
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus Nectarinia was introduced in 1811 by the German zoologist Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger.[2] The type species was designated as Certhia famosa Linnaeus, 1766 by George Gray in 1840.[3][4]
Species
[edit]The genus now contains six species:[5]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Bocage's sunbird | Nectarinia bocagii | Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
_(cropped).jpg) | Purple-breasted sunbird | Nectarinia purpureiventris | Albertine Rift montane forests |
.jpg) | Tacazze sunbird | Nectarinia tacazze | Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. |
_male.jpg) | Bronze sunbird | Nectarinia kilimensis | Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia |
.jpg) | Malachite sunbird | Nectarinia famosa | Ethiopia southwards to South Africa |
 | Scarlet-tufted sunbird | Nectarinia johnstoni | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. |
References
[edit]- ↑ "Nectariniidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ↑ Illiger, Johann Karl Wilhelm (1811). Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium (in Latin). Berolini [Berlin]: Sumptibus C. Salfeld. p. 210.
- ↑ Gray, George Robert (1840). A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus. London: R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 12.
- ↑ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 222.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
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