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Trochilus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Trochilus

Higher classification
  
Trochilinae

Order
  
Apodiformes

Family
  
Trochilidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Genus

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Lower classifications
  
Red‑billed streamertail, Black‑billed streamertail

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The streamertails are hummingbirds in the genus Trochilus that is endemic to Jamaica. It is the type genus of the Trochilidae family. Today most authorities consider the two taxa in this genus as separate species, but some (e.g. AOU) continue to treat them as conspecific, in which case scitulus is a subspecies of T. polytmus. A wide range of common names apply to this combined species, including green-and-black streamertail, Jamaican streamertail or simply streamertail. The name streamertail is a reference to the greatly elongated rectrices of the males.

Contents

Willow warbler phylloscopus trochilus


Species

  • Red-billed streamertail (Trochilus polytmus)
  • Black-billed streamertail (Trochilus scitulus)
  • References

    Trochilus Wikipedia