Basilinna (bird)

Basilinna
White-eared hummingbird, Basilinna leucotis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Tribe: Trochilini
Genus:
F. Boie, 1831
Species

2, see text

Basilinna is a genus of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae.

Species

The genus contains only two species:[1]

Genus Basilinna – F. Boie, 1831 – two species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
White-eared hummingbird

Basilinna leucotis
(Vieillot, 1818)

Three subspecies
  • B. l. leucotis
  • B. l. borealis
  • B. l. pygmaea
southeastern Arizona, southern New Mexico, and western Texas through the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental of northern Mexico and the Cordillera Neovolcanica of southern Mexico to southern Nicaragua Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Xantus's hummingbird

Basilinna xantusii
(Lawrence, 1860) 		southern Baja Peninsula of Mexico
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 



References

  1. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 January 2020.


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