''Chalcostigma'' is a
genus
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of South American
hummingbirds in the family
Trochilidae
Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae. With about 361 species and 113 genera, they occur from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but the vast majority of the species are found in the tropics aro ...
.
Taxonomy and species list
The genus ''Chalcostigma'' was introduced in 1854 by the German naturalist
Ludwig Reichenbach. The
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...
was subsequently designated as the
bronze-tailed thornbill by
George Gray. The name of the genus is derived from the
Greek
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Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
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**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
''khalkos'' meaning bronze and ''stigme'' for a spot or mark, a reference to the beard on the
bronze-tailed thornbill.
The genus contains the following five species:
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Rufous-capped thornbill (''Chalcostigma ruficeps'')
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Olivaceous thornbill (''Chalcostigma olivaceum'')
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Blue-mantled thornbill (''Chalcostigma stanleyi'')
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Bronze-tailed thornbill (''Chalcostigma heteropogon'')
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Rainbow-bearded thornbill (''Chalcostigma herrani'')
References
Bird genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxa named by Ludwig Reichenbach
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