Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Dutch | Geelpootsuikervogel |
English | Shining Honeycreeper |
English (United States) | Shining Honeycreeper |
French | Guit-guit brillant |
French (France) | Guit-guit brillant |
German | Azurnaschvogel |
Icelandic | Gljásuga |
Japanese | アオミツドリ |
Norwegian | gulbeinhonningkryper |
Polish | błękitniczek lśniący |
Russian | Желтоногий саи |
Serbian | Sjajni medni puzić |
Slovak | medosavka jagavá |
Spanish | Mielerito Reluciente |
Spanish (Costa Rica) | Mielero Luciente |
Spanish (Honduras) | Mielero Resplandeciente |
Spanish (Mexico) | Mielero Patas Amarillas |
Spanish (Panama) | Mielero Luciente |
Spanish (Spain) | Mielerito reluciente |
Swedish | gulbent nektarkrypare |
Turkish | Işıldayan Balkuşu |
Ukrainian | Танагра-медоїд лазурова |
Shining Honeycreeper Cyanerpes lucidus
Version: 1.0 — Published January 17, 2011
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Systematics
Geographic Variation
Two subspecies are recognized (Storer 1970, Dickinson 2003):
lucidus: Occurs from southeastern Mexico south to Nicaragua (Storer 1970).
isthmicus: Occurs Costa Rica, Panama, and northwestern Colombia (Storer 1970). Similar to nominate lucidus, but "decidedly smaller with shorter and slenderer bill, especially at base; blue color of adult male darker, the crown and hind neck distinctly lighter than, instead of concolor with, the back; female with dorsal surface slightly duller green and the pileum less bluish" (Hellmayr 1935: 264).
Subspecies
Related Species
The genus Cyanerpes at one time was included in the family Coerebidae, united a variety of genera of small, partially nectarivorous nine-primaried oscines (e.g. Hellmayr 1935). In recent years, however, nectar-feeding was believed to be independently derived in different lineages of nine-primaried oscines, and most members of Coerebidae, including Cyanerpes, were reclassified as tanagers, Thraupidae (e.g., Storer 1970). This interpretation has been confirmed through phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequence data (e.g., Burns et al. 2003). Preliminary data suggest that Cyanerpes is sister to Dacnis (Burns et al. 2003).
Relationships within Cyanerpes have not been studied. Some authors (e.g., Hellmayr 1935) had classified lucidus and isthmicus as subspecies of the Purple Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes caeruleus). As was later discovered, however, the geographic distributions of the Shining and Purple honeycreepers overlap in eastern Panama and in Colombia, and so the two clearly are separate species.