Selasphorus | |
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Female broad-tailed hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) at nest | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Subfamily: | Trochilinae |
Tribe: | Mellisugini |
Genus: | Selasphorus Swainson, 1832 |
Type species | |
Selasphorus rufus Gmelin, 1788
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Species | |
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Selasphorus is a genus of hummingbirds from Middle and North America.