Sunangel

The sunangels are a genus of hummingbirds, Heliangelus, found in montane South America. The genus contains the following nine species:[1]

Sunangel
Heliangelus mavors
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Subfamily: Trochilinae
Genus: Heliangelus
Gould, 1848

The Bogotá sunangel was formerly placed in this genus. It is regarded as a hybrid specimen by the International Ornithologists' Union based on a study published in 2018 by Jorge Pérez-Emán and colleagues.[1][2]

References

  1. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  2. Pérez-Emán, J.L.; Ferreira, J.P.; Gutiérrez-Pinto, N.; Cuervo, A.M.; Céspedes, L.N.; Witt, C.C.; Cadena, C.D. (2018). "An extinct hummingbird species that never was: a cautionary tale about sampling issues in molecular phylogenetics". Zootaxa. 4442 (3): 491–497. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4442.3.11.


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