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Issue: Vol. 3957 No. 1: 13 May 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-05-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.13
Page range: 143–150
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 1

Classification of the Polytminae (Aves: Trochilidae)

Museum of Natural Science & Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA.
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Aves Trochilidae

Abstract

The subfamily Polytminae, as defined by Dickinson & Remsen (2013) using the phylogeny of McGuire et al. (2009), consists of 12 genera and 27 species of hummingbirds (Trochilidae) distributed widely in the Neotropics, including the Caribbean. McGuire et al. (2014) expanded greatly on the taxon- and gene-sampling in McGuire et al. (2009), and although the phylogeny presented therein indicated the need for several changes in classification, such changes were beyond the scope of that paper.