Nesophlox

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| image = Bahama Woodstar - Calliphlox evelynae.jpg

| image_caption = Bahama woodstar, (Nesophlox evelynae)

| taxon = Nesophlox

| authority = Ridgway, 1910

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 2, see text

| synonyms = Calliphlox

}}

Nesophlox is a genus in the family of Hummingbirds. It consists of two endemic hummingbirds of the Bahamas.

Species

The genus contains two 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=July 2020 | title=Hummingbirds | work=IOC World Bird List Version 10.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=8 January 2020 }}

{{Species table |genus= Nesophlox |authority-name=Ridgway |authority-year= 1910|species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

{{Species table/row

|name=Bahama woodstar |binomial=Nesophlox evelynae

|image=File:Bahama Woodstar (Calliphlox evelynae).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Bourcier |authority-year=1847 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Bahama and Turks and Caicos islands

|range-image=File:Calliphlox evelynae map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

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|iucn-status= LC

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{{Species table/row

|name=Inagua woodstar |binomial=Nesophlox lyrura

|image=File:Inagua Woodstar (Calliphlox lyrura).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Gould |authority-year=1869 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Inagua in the Bahamas.

|range-image=File:Nesophlox lyrura map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

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|iucn-status= LC

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These species were formerly placed in the genus Calliphlox. Molecular phylogenetic studies published in 2014 and 2017 found that the genus Calliphlox was polyphyletic.{{ cite journal | last1=McGuire | first1=J. | last2=Witt | first2=C. | last3=Remsen | first3=J.V. | last4=Corl | first4=A. | last5=Rabosky | first5=D. | last6=Altshuler | first6=D. | last7=Dudley | first7=R. | date=2014 | title=Molecular phylogenetics and the diversification of hummingbirds | journal=Current Biology | volume=24 | issue=8 | pages=910–916 | doi=10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.016 | pmid=24704078 | doi-access=free | bibcode=2014CBio...24..910M }}{{Cite journal | last1=Licona-Vera | first1=Yuyini | last2=Ornelas | first2=Juan Francisco | date=2017 | title=The conquering of North America: dated phylogenetic and biogeographic inference of migratory behavior in bee hummingbirds | journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume=17 | issue=1 | pages=126 | doi=10.1186/s12862-017-0980-5 | pmid=28583078 | pmc=5460336 | doi-access=free| bibcode=2017BMCEE..17..126L }} In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, the Bahama woodstar and the Inagua woodstar were moved to the resurrected genus Nesophlox that had been introduced by Robert Ridgway in 1910.{{cite journal | last1=Chesser | first1=R.T. | last2=Burns | first2=K.J. | last3=Cicero | first3=C. | last4=Dunn | first4=J.L. | last5=Kratter | first5=A.W | last6=Lovette | first6=I.J. | last7=Rasmussen | first7=P.C. | last8=Remsen | first8=J.V. Jr | last9=Stotz | first9=D.F. | last10=Winker | first10=K. | year=2019 | title=Sixtieth supplement to the American Ornithological Society's Check-list of North American Birds |journal=The Auk |volume=136 | issue=3 |pages=1–23 |doi=10.1093/auk/ukz042 | doi-access=free }}

References

Category:Nesophlox

Category:Bird genera

Category:Birds of the Bahamas

Category:Hummingbird species of the Caribbean