Saucerottia

The species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in Amazilia. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the genus Amazilia was polyphyletic.^[1] In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, these species were placed in the resurrected genus Saucerottia.^[2][3] The genus had been introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte with the steely-vented hummingbird as the type species.^[4][5] The genus name is from the specific epithet saucerrottei for the steely-vented hummingbird. The epithet was coined in 1846 by Adolphe Delattre and Jules Bourcier to honour the French physician and ornithologist Antoine Constant Saucerotte.^[6]

The genus contains eleven species:^[2]

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Genus Saucerottia – Bonaparte, 1850 – eleven species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Azure-crowned hummingbird	Saucerottia cyanocephala (Lesson, 1830) Two subspecies S. c. cyanocephala (Lesson, 1829) S. c. chlorostephana (Howell, 1965).	Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Blue-vented hummingbird	Saucerottia hoffmanni (Cabanis & Heine,, 1860)	Costa Rica and Nicaragua	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Berylline hummingbird	Saucerottia beryllina (Deppe, 1830) Five subspecies S. b. viola (Miller, W, 1905) S. b. beryllina (Deppe, 1830) S. b. lichtensteini (Moore, RT, 1950) S. b. sumichrasti (Salvin, 1891) S. b. devillei (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1848)	El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and the United States.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Blue-tailed hummingbird	Saucerottia cyanura (Gould, 1859)	Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Snowy-bellied hummingbird	Saucerottia edward (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) Four subspecies S. e. niveoventer (Gould, 1851) S. e. edward (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) S. e. collata (Wetmore, 1952) S. e. margaritarum Griscom, 1927	Costa Rica and Panama with a few records in Colombia.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Steely-vented hummingbird	Saucerottia saucerottei (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) Three subspecies S. s. saucerottei S. s. warscewiczi S. s. braccata	Colombia and Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Indigo-capped hummingbird	Saucerottia cyanifrons (Bourcier, 1843)	Colombia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Chestnut-bellied hummingbird Male Female	Saucerottia castaneiventris (Gould, 1856)	Colombia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT
Green-bellied hummingbird	Saucerottia viridigaster (Bourcier, 1843)	Colombia and Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Copper-rumped hummingbird	Saucerottia tobaci (Gmelin, 1788) Seven subspecies S. t. monticola Todd, 1913 S. t. feliciae (Lesson, R, 1840) S. t. caudata (Zimmer, JT & Phelps, 1949) S. t. aliciae (Richmond, 1895) S. t. erythronotos (Lesson, R, 1829) S. t. tobaci (Gmelin, JF, 1788) S. t. caurensis Berlepsch & Hartert, E, 1902	Tobago, Trinidad, Venezuela, and possibly Grenada.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Copper-tailed hummingbird	Saucerottia cupreicauda (Salvin & Godman, 1884) Four subspecies S. v. duidae Chapman, 1929 S. v. cupreicauda (Salvin & Godman, 1884) S. v. laireti (Phelps, WH Jr & Aveledo, 1988) S. v. pacaraimae Weller, 2000	Brazil and Guyana	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

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