Saucerottia Explained

Saucerottia is a genus of birds in the family Trochilidae, or hummingbirds.

Species

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] The genus had been introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte with the steely-vented hummingbird as the type species.^{[3] [4]} 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.^[5]

The genus contains eleven species:^[6]

• Azure-crowned hummingbird, Saucerottia cyanocephala
• Blue-vented hummingbird, Saucerottia hoffmanni
• Berylline hummingbird, Saucerottia beryllina
• Blue-tailed hummingbird, Saucerottia cyanura
• Snowy-bellied hummingbird, Saucerottia edward
• Steely-vented hummingbird, Saucerottia saucerottei
• Indigo-capped hummingbird, Saucerottia cyanifrons
• Chestnut-bellied hummingbird, Saucerottia castaneiventris
• Green-bellied hummingbird, Saucerottia viridigaster
• Copper-rumped hummingbird, Saucerottia tobaci
• Copper-tailed hummingbird, Saucerottia cupreicauda

Notes and References

1. McGuire . J. . Witt . C. . Remsen . J.V. . Corl . A. . Rabosky . D. . Altshuler . D. . Dudley . R. . 2014 . Molecular phylogenetics and the diversification of hummingbirds . Current Biology . 24 . 8 . 910–916 . 10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.016 . 24704078 . free . 2014CBio...24..910M .
2. Stiles . F.G. . Remsen . J.V. Jr. . Mcguire . J.A. . 2017 . The generic classification of the Trochilini (Aves: Trochilidae): Reconciling taxonomy with phylogeny . Zootaxa . 4353 . 3 . 401–424 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.3 . 29245495 .
3. Book: Bonaparte, Charles Lucien . Charles Lucien Bonaparte . 1850 . Conspectus Generum Avium . 1 . Latin . E.J. Brill . Leiden . 77 .
4. Book: Peters . James Lee . James L. Peters . 1945 . Check-List of Birds of the World . 5 . Harvard University Press . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 68 .
5. Book: Jobling, James A. . 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm . London . 978-1-4081-2501-4 . 348 .
6. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . Rasmussen . Pamela . Pamela Rasmussen . July 2020 . Hummingbirds . IOC World Bird List Version 10.2 . International Ornithologists' Union . 7 January 2020 .