Nectarinia

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| image_caption = Tacazze sunbird (Nectarinia tacazze)

| taxon = Nectarinia

| authority = Illiger, 1811

| type_species = Certhia famosa{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=187 |title= Nectariniidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}

| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1766

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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

The genus Nectarinia was introduced in 1811 by the German zoologist Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger.{{ cite book | last=Illiger | first=Johann Karl Wilhelm | author-link=Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger | year=1811 | title=Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium | language=Latin | location=Berolini [Berlin] | publisher=Sumptibus C. Salfeld | page=210 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29301180 }} The type species was designated as Certhia famosa Linnaeus, 1766 by George 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=12 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13668906 }}{{ cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1986 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=12 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=222 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14482339 }}

Species

The genus now contains six 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 C. Rasmussen | date=August 2024 | title=Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/dippers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=30 December 2024 }}

Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
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120px	Bocage's sunbird	Nectarinia bocagii	Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
120px	Purple-breasted sunbird	Nectarinia purpureiventris	Albertine Rift montane forests
120px	Tacazze sunbird	Nectarinia tacazze	Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
120px	Bronze sunbird	Nectarinia kilimensis	Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia
120px	Malachite sunbird	Nectarinia famosa	Ethiopia southwards to South Africa
120px	Scarlet-tufted sunbird	Nectarinia johnstoni	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

References

Category:Bird genera

Category:Afromontane endemic bird species

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot