Aethopyga is a genus of birds in the sunbird family Nectariniidae. Species in this genus are found in South Asia, Southeast Asia and parts of China. Many species such as the grey-hooded sunbird, Apo sunbird, metallic-winged sunbird, handsome sunbird, and Lina's sunbird are endemic to the Philippines.
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| Vigors's sunbird from Maharashtra, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Nectariniidae |
| Genus: | Aethopyga Cabanis, 1851 |
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| Certhia siparaja (Crimson sunbird) Raffles, 1822
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Taxonomy edit
The genus Aethopyga was introduced in 1851 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis.[1] The name combines the Ancient Greek aithos meaning "fire" or "burning heat" with pugē meaning "rump".[2] The type species was designated as the crimson sunbird by George Robert Gray in 1855.[3][4]
Species edit
The genus contains 20 species:[5]
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Grey-hooded sunbird | Aethopyga primigenia | Philippines. |
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Apo sunbird | Aethopyga boltoni | Philippines. |
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Lina's sunbird | Aethopyga linaraborae | Mindanao in the Philippines |
| Flaming sunbird | Aethopyga flagrans | northern Philippines. | |
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Maroon-naped sunbird | Aethopyga guimarasensis | Philippines (Negros Island, Panay and Guimaras). |
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Metallic-winged sunbird | Aethopyga pulcherrima | Philippines. |
| Elegant sunbird | Aethopyga duyvenbodei | Indonesia | |
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Lovely sunbird | Aethopyga shelleyi | Philippines. |
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Handsome sunbird | Aethopyga bella | Philippines. |
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Mrs. Gould's sunbird | Aethopyga gouldiae | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, India, Vietnam and Southern China. |
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Green-tailed sunbird | Aethopyga nipalensis | Indian subcontinent, stretching eastwards into parts of Southeast Asia. |
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White-flanked sunbird | Aethopyga eximia | Indonesia. |
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Fork-tailed sunbird | Aethopyga christinae | China, Hong Kong, Laos, and Vietnam. |
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Black-throated sunbird | Aethopyga saturata | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam. |
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Crimson sunbird | Aethopyga siparaja | India, through Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar to Indonesia and Brunei. |
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Magnificent sunbird | Aethopyga magnifica | Negros Island, Panay, Cebu, Tablas Island and Romblon. |
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Vigors's sunbird | Aethopyga vigorsii | Western Ghats of India. |
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Javan sunbird | Aethopyga mystacalis | Java and Bali, Indonesia. |
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Temminck's sunbird | Aethopyga temminckii | Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia, and south west Thailand |
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Fire-tailed sunbird | Aethopyga ignicauda | Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Tibet. |
References edit
- ^ Cabanis, Jean (1851). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German and Latin). Vol. 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 103.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 19.
- ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 270.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (December 2023). "Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 14.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
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