Pirre hummingbird

The Pirre hummingbird (Goldmania bella), also somewhat misleadingly known as the rufous-cheeked hummingbird,[2] is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae.

Pirre hummingbird
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Goldmania
Species:
G. bella
Binomial name
Goldmania bella
(Nelson, 1912)

Found in Panama and far northwestern Colombia, its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Taxonomy

The Pirre hummingbird was first described by Edward William Nelson in 1912 from specimens collected near Cana and the slopes of the Cerro Pirre in the Darién National Park in eastern Panama near the border with Colombia. Nelson coined the binomial name Goethalsia bella.[3] A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the Pirre hummingbird was closely related to the violet-capped hummingbird in the genus Goldmania.[4] The two species were therefore placed together in Goldmania which has priority.[5] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[5]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Goethalsia bella". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Proposal (#304) to South American Classification Committee Archived 2008-05-08 at the Wayback Machine, museum.lsu.edu. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
  3. Nelson, Edward William (1912). "Descriptions of new genera, species and subspecies of birds from Panama, Columbia and Ecuador". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 60: 1–25 [7].
  4. 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. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.016.
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 6 January 2020.


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