Patagona gigas

Familia: Trochilidae
Subfamilia: Patagoninae
Genus: Patagona
Species:

Patagona gigas (Vieillot, 1824)

• Type locality: Brazil, error = restricted to Valparaiso, Chile.

• Trochilus gigas (protonym)

• Vieillot, L.P. 1822–1825. La galerie des oiseaux: dédiée à Son Altesse Royale Madame, duchesse de Berri. Tome 1, Parties 1–2. Constant-Chantpie: Paris. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.161301 BHL Reference page.  pl. 180

• Williamson, J.L., Gyllenhaal, E.F., Bauerfeind, S.M., Bautista, E., Baumann, M.J., Gadek, C.R., Marra, P.P., Ricote, N., Valqui H., T.H., Bozinovic, F., Singh, N.D. & Witt, C.C. 2024. Extreme elevational migration spurred cryptic speciation in giant hummingbirds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNAS 121 (21): e2313599121 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2313599121 Reference page. 
• Areta, J.I., Halley, M.R., Kirwan, G.M., Norambuena, H.V., Krabbe, N. & Piacentini, V.de Q. 2024. The world's largest hummingbird was described 131 years ago. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 144 (3): 328–332. DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v144i3.2024.a14 Reference page. 

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