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 }}
{{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=
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|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
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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:Taxa named by Friedrich Boie
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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