Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Apodiformes > Trochilidae > Heliactin > Heliactin bilophusHeliactin bilophus (horned sungem)Synonyms: Heliactin bilophum; Heliactin bilophum bilophum; Heliactin cornuta; Heliactin cornuta cornuta; Trochilus bilophus The horned sungem (Heliactin bilophus) is a South American hummingbird, the only species, (monotypic), of the genus Heliactin. The scientific name bilophus is sometimes considered a nomen oblitum, which, if accepted, results in Heliactin cornutus being the correct name for this species. It occurs in Bolivia, Brazil, and Suriname. It prefers fairly dry open or semi-open habitats, such as savanna and Cerrado. It avoids dense humid forest. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 12.6288 EDGE Score: 2.61219 |
Adult Weight [1] | 4.4 grams | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 10 % | Diet - Nectar [2] | 90 % | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 50 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 50 % | | Clutch Size [3] | 2 | Incubation [3] | 13 days |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Atlantic dry forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Bahia interior forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Caatinga |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Campos Rupestres montane savanna |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Cerrado |
Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Chiquitano dry forests |
Bolivia, Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Guianan savanna |
Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Madeira-Tapajós moist forests |
Brazil, Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Pantanal |
Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay |
Neotropic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Pernambuco interior forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Serra do Mar coastal forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Tocantins/Pindare moist forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests |
Brazil, Guyana, Suriname |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Atlantic Forest |
Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay |
No |
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Cerrado |
Brazil |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Silva, JMC.; Oren, DC.; Roma, JC. and Henriques, LMP. (1997). Composition and distribution patterns of the avifauna of an Amazonian upland savanna, Amapá, Brazil. Orn. Monogr., 48:743‐762. ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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