Heliodoxa

Heliodoxa
male green-crowned brilliant, Heliodoxa jacula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Heliantheini
Genus:	HeliodoxaGould, 1850
Type species
Trochilus leadbeateri (violet-fronted brilliant) Bourcier, 1843

Heliodoxa is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Heliodoxa was introduced in 1850 by the English ornithologist John Gould.^[1] The genus name combines the Ancient Greekhēlios meaning "sun" and doxa meaning "glory" or "magnificence".^[2] The type species was subsequently designated by Charles Lucien Bonaparte as the violet-fronted brilliant.^[3][4]

The genus contains ten species:^[5]

Genus Heliodoxa – Gould, 1850 – ten species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Gould's jewelfront	Heliodoxa aurescens(Gould, 1846)	Brazil, central Ecuador and Peru	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Brazilian ruby Male Female	Heliodoxa rubricauda(Boddaert, 1783)	Brazil(Bahia south to Rio Grande do Sul)	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Fawn-breasted brilliant	Heliodoxa rubinoides(Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) Three subspecies H. r. aequatorialis H. r. cervinigularis H. r. rubinoides	Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Violet-fronted brilliant Male Female	Heliodoxa leadbeateri(Bourcier, 1843) Four subspecies H. l. leadbeateri (Bourcier, 1843) H. l. parvulaBerlepsch, 1888 H. l. sagitta (Reichenbach, 1854) H. l. otero (Tschudi, 1844)	Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Velvet-browed brilliant	Heliodoxa xanthogonysSalvin & Godman, 1882 Two subspecies H. x. xanthogonys H. x. williardi	Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Black-throated brilliant	Heliodoxa schreibersii(Bourcier, 1847) Two subspecies H. s. schreibersii H. s. whitelyana	Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Pink-throated brilliant	Heliodoxa gularis(Gould, 1860)	Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Rufous-webbed brilliant	Heliodoxa branickii(Taczanowski, 1874)	Peru	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Empress brilliant	Heliodoxa imperatrix(Gould, 1856)	Colombia and Ecuador	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Green-crowned brilliant Male Female	Heliodoxa jacula(Gould, 1850) Three subspecies H. j. jacula H. j. henryi H. j. jamersoni	Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

References

1. Gould, John (1849). "Description of two new species with the characters of a new genus of the Trochilidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 17 (195): 95–96. Although the title page is dated 1849, the article was not published until 1850.
2. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 188. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
3. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1850). "Note sur les Trochilidés". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences (in French). 30: 379–383 [380].
4. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 87.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 January 2020.