Doricha

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Doricha

| image = Doricha eliza b.jpg

| image_caption = Female Mexican sheartail, Doricha eliza

| taxon = Doricha

| authority = Reichenbach, 1854

| type_species = Trochilus enicurus (slender sheartail)

| type_species_authority = Vieillot, 1818

| synonyms =

}}

Doricha is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Doricha was introduced in 1854 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach to accommodate the slender sheartail which is thus the type species.{{ cite journal | last=Reichenbach | first=Ludwig | author-link=Ludwig Reichenbach | year=1854 | title=Aufzählung der Colibris Oder Trochilideen in ihrer wahren natürlichen Verwandtschaft, nebst Schlüssel ihrer Synonymik | journal=Journal für Ornithologie (Supplement) | volume=1 | pages=1–24 [12] | language=German | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13867390 }}{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1945 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=5 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | pages=132–133 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480143 }} The genus name is that of Rhodopsis a celebrated Ancient Greek courtesan or hetaira.{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=139 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n139/mode/1up }}

The genus contains the following species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=August 2022 | title=Hummingbirds | work=IOC World Bird List Version 12.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=15 September 2022 }}

{{Species table |genus=Doricha |authority-name=Reichenbach|authority-year= 1854 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

{{Species table/row

|name=Mexican sheartail|binomial=Doricha eliza

|image=File:Doricha eliza 109753702.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male

|image2 =File:Doricha eliza 139073552.jpg|image2-caption=Female

|authority-name=Lesson, RP & Delattre|authority-year= 1839|authority-not-original=yes

|range= Mexico

|range-image=File:Doricha eliza map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= NT

|population=

|direction=

|subspecies=

}}

{{Species table/row

|name=Slender sheartail|binomial=Doricha enicura

|image=File:Doricha enicura 13729492.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male

|image2 =File:Doricha enicura 107113849.jpg|image2-caption=Female

|authority-name=Vieillot|authority-year= 1818|authority-not-original=yes

|range= El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.

|range-image=File:Doricha enicura map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= LC

|population=

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}}

References

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

Category:Taxa named by Ludwig Reichenbach