''Elliotomyia'' is a genus in the family of
Hummingbirds.
Species
The genus contains two species:
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White-bellied hummingbird
The white-bellied hummingbird (''Elliotomyia chionogaster'') is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru.HBW and BirdLife International (2021) ...
, ''Elliotomyia chionogaster''
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Green-and-white hummingbird
The green-and-white hummingbird (''Elliotomyia viridicauda'') is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is endemic to Peru.HBW and BirdLife International (2021) Handbook of the Birds of the W ...
, ''Elliotomyia viridicauda''
These species were formerly placed in the genus ''
Amazilia''. A
molecular phylogenetic
Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...
study published in 2014 found that ''Amazilia'' was
polyphyletic. In the revised classification to create
monophyletic
In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gro ...
genera, the white-bellied hummingbird and the green-and-white hummingbird were placed in a new genus ''Elliotomyia''.
References
Elliotomyia
Bird genera
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