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| Coeligena | |
|---|---|
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| Collared inca (C. torquata) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Tribe: | Heliantheini |
| Genus: | Coeligena Lesson, 1833 |
| Type species | |
| Ornismya coeligena[1] Lesson, 1833 | |
| Species | |
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Coeligena is a genus of South American hummingbirds. Species in the genus are commonly called incas or starfrontlets.
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus Coeligena was introduced in 1833 by the French naturalist René Lesson with the type species by tautonymy as Ornismya coelinga Lesson, the bronzy inca.[2][3] The genus name is from Latin coeligenus meaning "heaven-born" or "celestial".[4]
Species
[edit]The genus contains the following 15 species:[5]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) | Bronzy inca | Coeligena coeligena | North Venezuela to southeast Bolivia |
.jpg) | Brown inca | Coeligena wilsoni | West Colombia to west Ecuador |
.jpg) | Black inca | Coeligena prunellei | North-central Colombia |
.jpg) | Green inca | Coeligena conradii | Northeast Colombia and northwest Venezuela (Trujillo to north Táchira) |
 | Collared inca | Coeligena torquata | Northwest Venezuela and Colombia to south Peru |
.jpeg) | Gould's inca | Coeligena inca | Southeast Peru to Bolivia |
 | Violet-throated starfrontlet | Coeligena violifer | North Peru to northwest Bolivia |
 | Rainbow starfrontlet | Coeligena iris | Ecuador and Peru |
.jpg) | White-tailed starfrontlet | Coeligena phalerata | Northeast Colombia |
.jpg) | Dusky starfrontlet | Coeligena orina | North-central Colombia |
.jpg) | Buff-winged starfrontlet | Coeligena lutetiae | Colombia to Peru |
.jpg) | Perija starfrontlet | Coeligena consita | Perijá Mountains (Colombia-Venezuela border) |
.jpg) | Golden-bellied starfrontlet | Coeligena bonapartei | East Colombia |
_(2).jpg) | Golden-tailed starfrontlet | Coeligena eos | West Venezuela |
_male_Cundinamarca_2.jpg) | Blue-throated starfrontlet | Coeligena helianthea | Northeast Colombia and west Venezuela |
References
[edit]- ↑ "Trochilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ↑ Lesson, René P. (n.d.). Les Trochilidées : ou, Les colibris et les oiseaux-mouches, suivis d'un Index général, dans lequel sont décrites et classées méthodiquement toutes les races et espèces du genre Trochilus (in French). Paris: Arthus Bertrand (published 1833). p. xviii. The work was published in 14 livraisons (sections). For the publication dates see: Dickinson, E.C.; Overstreet, L.K.; Dowsett, R.J.; Bruce, M.D. (2011). Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers. Northampton, UK: Aves Press. pp. 120–121. ISBN 978-0-9568611-1-5.
- ↑ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 98.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. "Coeligena". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (February 2025). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 115.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
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