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

Heliodoxa is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.

Taxonomy

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The genus Heliodoxa was introduced in 1850 by the English ornithologist John Gould.[1] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek hēlios 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
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Brazilian ruby


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Heliodoxa rubricauda
(Boddaert, 1783)
Brazil(Bahia south to Rio Grande do Sul)
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Fawn-breasted brilliant

Heliodoxa rubinoides
(Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846)

Three subspecies
  • H. r. aequatorialis
  • H. r. cervinigularis
  • H. r. rubinoides
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
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Violet-fronted brilliant


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Heliodoxa leadbeateri
(Bourcier, 1843)

Four subspecies
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela
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Velvet-browed brilliant

Heliodoxa xanthogonys
Salvin & Godman, 1882

Two subspecies
  • H. x. xanthogonys
  • H. x. williardi
Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela
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Black-throated brilliant

Heliodoxa schreibersii
(Bourcier, 1847)

Two subspecies
  • H. s. schreibersii
  • H. s. whitelyana
Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
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Pink-throated brilliant


Heliodoxa gularis
(Gould, 1860)
Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
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Rufous-webbed brilliant


Heliodoxa branickii
(Taczanowski, 1874)
Peru
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Empress brilliant

Heliodoxa imperatrix
(Gould, 1856)
Colombia and Ecuador
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Green-crowned brilliant


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Heliodoxa jacula
(Gould, 1850)

Three subspecies
  • H. j. jacula
  • H. j. henryi
  • H. j. jamersoni
Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama
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