Selasphorus
| Selasphorus | |
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| Female broad-tailed hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) at nest | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Subfamily: | Trochilinae |
| Tribe: | Mellisugini |
| Genus: | Selasphorus Swainson, 1832 |
| Type species | |
| Selasphorus rufus Gmelin, 1788 | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Selasphorus is a genus of hummingbirds from Middle and North America.