Genus of birds
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
White-necked jacobin
Male
Female
Florisuga mellivora (Linnaeus , 1758 )
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