Hummingbirds

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Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryotes
Kingdom:	Animals
Kingdom :	Eumetazoi
No rank :	Bilateral symmetrical
No rank :	Secondary
Type of:	Chordate
Subtype :	Vertebrates
Infratype :	Maxillary
Overclass :	Tetrapods
Grade:	Birds
Subclass :	Real birds
Infraclass :	Newborn
Squad:	Swift
Suborder :	Hummingbird ( Trochili )
Family:	Hummingbird
Subfamily :	Typical hummingbirds
Gender:	Hummingbirds
International scientific name
	Chalybura Reichenbach , 1854
Synonyms
	Hypuroptila Gould (1854); Hypuroptilia E. Verreaux (1874); Methon Mulsant (1876)
Kinds
	Chalybura buffonii Lesson (1832); Chalybura urochrysia Gould (1861)

Hummingbirds ( Lat. Chalybura ) - a genus of birds of the hummingbird family.

Distribution

They live in the territory of Central America ^[1] .

Description

The body length is from 10.5 to 12 cm. The mass of the male is 6.9-7.3 g, and the female is 5.9-6.3 g ^[1] .

Systematics

Etymology

The genus Chalybura (from the Greek χαλυβος - “steel” and the Greek ουρα - “tail”) ^[2] was isolated in 1854 by the German zoologist Ludviogm Reichenbach (1793-1879).

Views

( Lesson , 1832)
( Gould , 1861)

Notes

↑ ¹ ² Cleere, 1999 , p. 607-608.
↑ Jobling, JA Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology // Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive : [ eng. ] . - Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2017.

Literature

Cleere N. Family Caprimulgidae (Nightjars) / del Hoyo J., Elliott A., Christie D., eds .. - Handbook of the birds of the world / Vol. 5 .-- Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 1999 .-- 759 p. - ISBN 8487334253 .

[_20ca79e92c937dfb-1] ¹ ² Cleere, 1999 , p. 607-608.

[2] Jobling, JA Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology // Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive : [ eng. ] . - Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2017.