Plumeleteer
Genus of birds
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The plumeleteers are a genus Chalybura of Neotropical hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.
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| Chalybura | |
|---|---|
| |
| Bronze-tailed plumeleteer (Chalybura urochrysia) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Tribe: | Trochilini |
| Genus: | Chalybura Reichenbach, 1854 |
| Type species | |
| Trochilus buffonii Lesson, 1832 | |
| Species | |
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2, see text | |
Taxonomy
The genus Chalybura was introduced in 1854 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach. He listed three species in the new genus but did not specify the type species.[1] In 1879 Daniel Giraud Elliot selected Trochilus buffoni Lesson, the white-vented plumeleteer, as the type.[2][3] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek χαλυψ/khalups meaning "steel" with -ουρος/-ouros meaning "-tailed".[4]
A phylogenetic study published in 2014 found the genus Chalybura containing the plumeleteers was sister to the genus Thalurania containing the woodnymphs.[5]
The genus contains the following two species:[6]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
_(9)_(14420386998).jpg) | Chalybura buffonii | White-vented plumeleteer | Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela |
_crop.jpg) | Chalybura urochrysia | Bronze-tailed plumeleteer | eastern Honduras to northwestern Ecuador |
