Phaethornis | |
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Long-tailed Hermit Phaethornis superciliosus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Subfamily: | Phaethornithinae |
Genus: | Phaethornis Swainson, 1827 |
Type species | |
Trochilus superciliosus Linnaeus, 1766
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Species | |
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Phaethornis is a genus of hummingbirds in the hermit subfamily, Phaethornithinae. They occur from southern Mexico, through Central America, to South America as far south as northern Argentina.