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The sunangels are a genus of hummingbirds, Heliangelus, found in montane South America.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Heliangelus is referenced by 183 other articles, and connects out to Nyctibiidae, Aegotheliformes and Apodinae.

It sits within the topics Birds of the Northern Andes, Heliangelus and Taxonomy articles created by Polbot.

Its subject is documented across 24 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. OrderApodiformes
  5. FamilyTrochilidae
Observations recorded94,190

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
15
Family
Trochilidae
Collections
MSU, FMNH, NHMUK, DMNS, LACM, LSUMZ
Recorded in
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

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The sunangels are a genus of hummingbirds, Heliangelus, found in montane South America.

==Taxonomy== The genus Heliangelus was introduced in 1848 by the English ornithologist John Gould. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek ἡλιος/hēlios meaning "sun" with αγγελος/angelos meaning "angel". Gould did not specify a type species but in 1855 George Gray designated the type as Trochilus clarissae Longuemare which is Ornismya clarisse Longuemare, 1841, Longuemare's sunangel.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Heliangelus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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