Basilinna (bird)
Basilinna | |
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White-eared hummingbird, Basilinna leucotis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Trochilini |
Genus: | Basilinna F. Boie, 1831 |
Species | |
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Basilinna is a genus of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae.
Species
[edit]The genus contains only two species:[1]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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White-eared hummingbird | Basilinna leucotis (Vieillot, 1818) Three subspecies
| 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 | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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Xantus's hummingbird | Basilinna xantusii (Lawrence, 1860) | southern Baja Peninsula of Mexico | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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References
[edit]- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 January 2020.