Order
Passeriformes
Family
Thraupidae
Genus
Diglossa
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Merida Flowerpiercer Diglossa gloriosa

Courtney Drake, Erik R. Funk, Casey H. Richart, and Kevin J. Burns
Version: 1.0 — Published January 12, 2018

References

Introduction

BirdLife International. 2016. Species factsheet: Merida Flowerpiercer Diglossa gloriosa. Downloaded from BirdLife International.

Burns, K.J., S.J. Hackett, and N.K. Klein. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships of Neotropical honeycreepers and the evolution of feeding morphology. Journal of Avian Biology 34: 360-370. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0908-8857.2003.03171.x

Burns, K.J. and A.J. Shultz. 2012. Widespread cryptic dichromatism and ultraviolet reflectance in the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds: implications of accounting for avian vision in the study of plumage evolution. Auk 129: 211-221. https://doi.org/10.1525/auk.2012.11182

Burns, K.J., A.J. Shultz, P.O. Title, N.A. Mason, F.K. Barker, J. Klicka, S.M. Lanyon and I.J. Lovette. 2014. Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 75: 41-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006

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Graves, G.R. 1982. Speciation in the Carbonated Flower-piercer (Diglossa carbonaria) complex of the Andes. Condor 84: 1-14.

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Hilty, S.L. 2011. Family Thraupidae (Tanagers). Pages 46-329 in J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D.A. Christie (editors), Handbook of the birds of the world. Volume 16. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

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Mauck, W.M., III and K.J. Burns. 2009. Phylogeny, biogeography, and recurrent evolution of divergent bill types in the nectar-stealing flowerpiercers (Thraupini: Diglossa and Diglossopis). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 98:14-28. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01278.x

Meyer de Schauensee, R., and W.H. Phelps, Jr. 1978. A guide to the birds of Venezuela. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

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Ridgely, R.S., and G. Tudor. 2009. Field guide to the songbirds of South America. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.

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Storer, R.W. 1970. Subfamily Thraupinae, tanagers. Pages 246-408 in R. A. Paynter, Jr., and R. W. Storer (editors), Check-list of birds of the world. Volume XIII. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Stotz, D.F., J.W. Fitzpatrick, T.A. Parker III, and D.K. Moskovits. 1996. Neotropical birds: ecology and conservation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Vuilleumier, F. 1969. Systematics and evolution in Diglossa (Aves, Coerebidae). American Museum Novitates 2381: 1-44.

Vuilleumier, F., and D.N. Ewert. 1978. The distribution of birds in Venezuelan Páramos. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 162: 47-90.

Zimmer, J.T. 1929. Variation and distribution on two species of Diglossa. Auk 46: 21-37.

Recommended Citation

Drake, C., E. R. Funk, C. H. Richart, and K. J. Burns (2018). Merida Flowerpiercer (Diglossa gloriosa), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.merflo1.01