Basilinna (bird)
Appearance
Basilinna | |
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White-eared hummingbird, Basilinna leucotis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Trochilini |
Genus: | Basilinna F. Boie, 1831 |
Species | |
2, see text |
Basilinna is a genus of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It contains only two species:
Species
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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B. leucotis | White-eared hummingbird | 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 | |
B. xantusii | Xantus's hummingbird | southern Baja Peninsula of Mexico |