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Azure-crowned Hummingbird (1 Viewer)

Richard Klim

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Rodríguez-Gómez, Gutiérrez-Rodríguez & Ornelas (in press). Genetic, phenotypic and ecological divergence with gene flow at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec: the case of the azure-crowned hummingbird (Amazilia cyanocephala). J Biogeogr. [abstract]

Weller 1999 (HBW 5).

[Monroe & Sibley 1993 lists Mosquitia Hummingbird Amazilia (cyanocephala) chlorostephana as a possible species.]
 
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Rodríguez-Gómez & Ornelas

Rodríguez-Gómez & Ornelas (in press). Genetic divergence of the Mesoamerican azure-crowned hummingbird (Amazilia cyanocephala, Trochilidae) across the Motagua-Polochic-Jocotán fault system. J Zool Syst Evol Res. [abstract]

[A. c. guatemalensis (Gould, 1861) is recognised as a valid subspecies by Peters 1945, but synonymised with nominate cyanocephala by Weller 1999 (HBW 5), H&M4, IOC and eBird/Clements.]

PS. Rodríguez-Gómez et al 2013. J Biogeogr 40(7): 1360–1373. [pdf]
 
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