Glaucis

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{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Glaucis

| image = Bronzy Hermit (3529655516).jpg

| image_caption = Bronzy hermit, Glaucis aeneus

| taxon = Glaucis

| authority = Boie, F, 1831

| type_species = Trochilus brasiliensis = Trochilus hirsutus

| type_species_authority = Latham, 1790

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 3, see text

}}

Glaucis is a genus of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Glaucis was introduced in 1831 by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie.{{ cite journal | last=Boie | first=Friedrich | author-link=Friedrich Boie | year=1831 | title=Bemerkungen über Species und einige ornithologische Familien und Sippen | journal=Isis von Oken | volume=1831 | language=German | at=Cols 538–548 [545]| url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27512960 }} The type species was designated as the rufous-breasted hermit by George Robert Gray in 1840.{{ cite book | last=Gray | first=George Robert | author-link=George Robert Gray | year=1840 | title=A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus | location=London | publisher=R. and J.E. Taylor | page=13 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13668907 }}{{ 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 | page=4 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480015 }} The genus name is from the Ancient Greek glaukos meaning "blue-grey", "glaucous" or "pale green".{{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=174 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n174/mode/1up }}

The genus contains the following three 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=January 2022 | title=Hummingbirds | work=IOC World Bird List Version 12.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=11 July 2022 }}

{{Species table |genus=Glaucis |authority-name= Boie, F |authority-year=1831 |species-count=three|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

{{Species table/row

|name= Bronzy hermit|binomial=Glaucis aeneus

|image=File:Bronzy Hermit (3529655516) (cropped).jpg |image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Lawrence |authority-year=1868 |authority-not-original=

|range= Eastern Honduras south to western Panama, and in the Chocó of western Colombia and north-western Ecuador

|range-image=File:Glaucis aeneus map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= LC

|population=

|direction=

|subspecies=

}}

{{Species table/row

|name= Hook-billed hermit|binomial=Glaucis dohrnii

|image=File:Glaucius dohrnii Hook-billed Hermit, Boa Nova, Bahia, Brazil.jpg |image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Bourcier & Mulsant |authority-year=1852 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= eastern Brazil

|range-image=File:Glaucis dohrnii map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= VU

|population=

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}}

{{Species table/row

|name= Rufous-breasted hermit or hairy hermit |binomial=Glaucis hirsutus

|image=File:Rufous-breasted hermit ( Glaucis hirsutus insularum).jpg |image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Gmelin, JF |authority-year=1788 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Panama south to Bolivia, and on Trinidad, Tobago and Grenada

|range-image=File:Glaucis hirsutus map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= LC

|population=

|direction=

|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Two subspecies |bullets=on

| G. h. insularum Hellmayr & Seilern, 1913 – Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago

| G. h. hirsutus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) – Panama and west Colombia through Venezuela and the Guianas to Brazil and north Bolivia

}}

}}

{{Species table/end}}

References

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Category:Bird genera

Category:Taxa named by Friedrich Boie

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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