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''Elliotomyia'' is a genus in the family of Hummingbirds.


Species

The genus contains two species: * White-bellied hummingbird, ''Elliotomyia chionogaster'' * Green-and-white hummingbird, ''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 {{hummingbird-stub