Jacobin (hummingbird)

Short description: Genus of birds

Jacobin (hummingbird)

Black jacobin, (Florisuga fusca)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Aves
Clade:  | Strisores
Order:  | Apodiformes
Family:  | Trochilidae
Subfamily:  | Florisuginae
Genus:  | Florisuga
Bonaparte, 1850
Type species
Trochilus mellivorus

Linnaeus, 1758

Species

2, see text

The jacobins are two species of hummingbirds in the genus Florisuga.

## Taxonomy

The genus Florisuga was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The name combines the Latin flos, floris meaning "flower" with sugere meaning "to suck".[1] The type species is the white-necked jacobin.[2]

The genus contains the following species:[3]

Genus Florisuga  – Linnaeus, 1758 – two species  Common name  | Scientific name and subspecies  | Range  | Size and ecology  | IUCN status and estimated population

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White-necked jacobin

| Florisuga mellivora
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Two subspecies

* F. m. mellivora Linnaeus (1758)
* F. m. flabellifera Gould (1846)

| Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
| Size:

Habitat:

Diet:  |  LC

Black jacobin

| Florisuga fusca
(Vieillot, 1817) | eastern Brazil, Uruguay, eastern Paraguay, and far north-eastern Argentina
| Size:

Habitat:

Diet:  |  LC

## References

1. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 162. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
2. ↑ Peters, James Lee, ed (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 21. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480032.
3. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/. Retrieved 2 January 2020.

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