Basilinna (bird)

Basilinna is a genus of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It contains only two species:

Basilinna
White-eared hummingbird, Basilinna leucotis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Subfamily: Trochilinae
Genus: Basilinna
F. Boie, 1831
Species

2, see text

Species

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
B. leucotisWhite-eared hummingbirdsoutheastern 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. xantusiiXantus's hummingbirdsouthern Baja Peninsula of Mexico
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