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Basilinna (bird)

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Basilinna
White-eared hummingbird, Basilinna leucotis
Scientific classification Edit this 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
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