Saw Billed Hermit

Information about Saw Billed Hermit

Saw-billed Hermit

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Trochiliformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Genus:	*Ramphodon* Lesson, 1830
Species:	*R. naevius*

Binomial name

Ramphodon naevius
(Dumont, 1818)

Synonyms

Trochilus naevius Dumont, 1818

The Saw-billed Hermit (Ramphodon naevius) is a hummingbird from southeastern Brazil, the only member of the genus Ramphodon. It is around 14-16 cm long and is one of the heaviest of the hermits; its straight bill has a hooked tip. It lives in humid forests, where it aggressively defends feeding routes ("trap-lines") from individuals of its own species as well as other hummingbirds. It is currently considered near-threatened, since it has a restricted range in threatened Atlantic forests.

The Saw-billed Hermit is placed in the hermit subfamily Phaethornithinae, but among these birds, it is the species most similar to the typical humingbirds, Trochilinae (Hinkelmann, 1999). This, coupled with the considerable number of autapomorphies such as the unusual bill, suggest it is the most primitive species of the hermit lineage; a situation paralleled by the equally unusual Tooth-billed Hummingbird in the Trochilinae.

References

BirdLife International (2004). Ramphodon naevius. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is near threatened.
Hinkelmann, C. (1999): 1. Saw-billed Hermit. In: del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A. & Sargatal, J. (editors) (1999): Handbook of Birds of the World, Volume 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds: 537, plate 45. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ISBN 84-87334-25-3

External links

BirdLife Species Factsheet
Saw-billed Hermit photo gallery VIREO
Saw-billed Hermit videos on the Internet Bird Collection

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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

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Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Trochilidae
Vigors, 1825

Subfamilies

Phaethornithinae
Trochilinae

For a taxonomic list of genera, see:

List of hummingbirds in taxonomic order

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RenÃ© PrimevÃ¨re Lesson (March 20, 1794 - April 28, 1849) was a French surgeon and naturalist.

Lesson was born at Rochefort, and at the age of sixteen he entered the Naval Medical School there.
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Charles Henri FrÃ©dÃ©ric Dumont de Sainte-Croix (April 27, 1758 – January 8, 1830) was a French zoologist.

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Trochilidae
Vigors, 1825

Subfamilies

Phaethornithinae
Trochilinae

For a taxonomic list of genera, see:

List of hummingbirds in taxonomic order

For an alphabetic species list, see:

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Motto
Ordem e Progresso (Portuguese)
"Order and Progress"
Anthem
Hino Nacional Brasileiro
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Phaethornithinae
Jardine, 1833

Genera

Ramphodon
Eutoxeres
Glaucis
Threnetes
Anopetia
Phaethornis

The Hermits are tropical and subtropical hummingbirds in the subfamily
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Androdon
Gould, 1863

Species: A. aequatorialis

Binomial name
Androdon aequatorialis
Gould, 1863

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