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Long-billed or Mexican Hermit
Phaethornis [longirostris or mexicanus] (= Phaethornis longirostris) (Delattre, PA 1843)
The long-billed hermit is a bird in the family Trochilidae, the hummingbirds. It is found from central Mexico south through Central America, Colombia and Ecuador into Peru. Source: Wikipedia
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Apodiformes
Family:
Trochilidae
Genus:
Phaethornis
Scientific:
Phaethornis longirostris
Classification
Order:Apodiformes
Family:
Trochilidae
Genus:
Phaethornis
Scientific:
Phaethornis longirostris
Original description
Citation:
(Delattre, PA 1843)
Reference:
Écho Monde Savant
(2), 10 no.45 col.1070
Protonym:
Ornismya longirostris
Type locality:
Guatemala.
Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180983#page/361/mode/1up
Avibase identifiers
Avibase ID:
0504418C64553D99
Avibase ID:
avibase-0504418C
Short link:
https://avibase.ca/0504418C
Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 693139
Geographic range:
- Phaethornis longirostris: humid to deciduous forest and borders, and montane cloud forest in the Gulf of Mexico slope from southern Veracruz and northern Oaxaca southeastward to eastern Panama and adjacent Colombia, and on the Pacific slope of far southern Nicaragua, Costa Rica and western Panama; in South America, in the lowlands of northern Colombia, including the Sierra de Santa Marta area, eastward to western Venezuela, southward along the Río Magdalena valley to the lower Magdalena in Cundinamarca, and southward in northwestern Colombia to the Pacific coast in Chocó; also in western Ecuador southward to far northwestern Peru
- Phaethornis longirostris longirostris: southern Mexico (northern Oaxaca and Chiapas) to Belize and northern Honduras
- Phaethornis longirostris cephalus: eastern Honduras to northwestern Colombia
- Phaethornis longirostris susurrus: Santa Marta Mountains (northeastern Colombia)
- Phaethornis longirostris baroni: western Ecuador and northwestern Peru
- Phaethornis mexicanus: humid to semi-humid forest and thickets in the Pacific slope of central and southern Mexico, from Nayarit southward to Colima and from western Guerrero eastward to eastern Oaxaca
- Phaethornis mexicanus mexicanus: southwestern Mexico (western Guerrero to southeastern Oaxaca)
- Phaethornis mexicanus griseoventer: western Mexico (Nayarit to Colima)
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Source: Clements checklist
Long-billed or Mexican Hermit
French:
Ermite à longue queue ou E. de Hartert
Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:
| American Ornithologists' Union 7th edition (incl. 43rd suppl.): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) |
| American Ornithologists' Union 7th edition (incl. 44th suppl.): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) |
| American Ornithologists' Union 7th edition (incl. 45th suppl.): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) |
| American Ornithologists' Union 7th edition (incl. 46th suppl.): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) |
| American Ornithologists' Union 7th edition (incl. 47th suppl.): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) |
| American Ornithologists' Union 7th edition (incl. 48th suppl.): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) |
| American Ornithologists' Union 7th edition (incl. 49th suppl.): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) |
| American Ornithologists' Union 7th edition (incl. 50th suppl.): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) |
| American Ornithologists' Union 7th edition (incl. 51st suppl.): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) |
| American Ornithologists' Union 7th edition (incl. 52nd suppl.): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) |
| American Ornithologists' Union 7th edition (incl. 53rd suppl.): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) |
| American Ornithologists' Union 7th edition (incl. 54th suppl.): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) |
| American Ornithologists' Union 7th edition (incl. 55th suppl.): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Long-billed or Mexican Hermit ( Phaethornis [longirostris or mexicanus]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Long-billed, Baron's, Jalisco or Mexican Hermit ( Phaethornis [longirostris, baroni, griseoventer or mexicanus]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Long-billed, Baron's, Jalisco or Mexican Hermit ( Phaethornis [longirostris, baroni, griseoventer or mexicanus]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2025 (Nov 2025): Long-billed or Mexican Hermit ( Phaethornis [longirostris or mexicanus]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Long-billed, Baron's, Jalisco or Mexican Hermit ( Phaethornis [longirostris, baroni, griseoventer or mexicanus]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Long-billed, Baron's, Jalisco or Mexican Hermit ( Phaethornis [longirostris, baroni, griseoventer or mexicanus]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Long-billed, Baron's, Jalisco or Mexican Hermit ( Phaethornis [longirostris, baroni, griseoventer or mexicanus]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Long-billed, Baron's, Jalisco or Mexican Hermit ( Phaethornis [longirostris, baroni, griseoventer or mexicanus]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Long-billed, Baron's, Jalisco or Mexican Hermit ( Phaethornis [longirostris, baroni, griseoventer or mexicanus]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Long-billed, Baron's, Jalisco or Mexican Hermit ( Phaethornis [longirostris, baroni, griseoventer or mexicanus]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Long-billed, Baron's, Jalisco or Mexican Hermit ( Phaethornis [longirostris, baroni, griseoventer or mexicanus]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Long-billed, Baron's, Jalisco or Mexican Hermit ( Phaethornis [longirostris, baroni, griseoventer or mexicanus]) |
| Birdlife checklist version 00: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 01: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 02: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 03: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 04: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 05 (Jun 2012): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 05.1 (Oct 2012): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 06 (Nov 2013): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 06.1 (Feb 2014): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993, révision 2009): Ermite à longue queue ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (as published): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2000 revisions): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2001 revisions): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2002 revisions): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2003 revisions): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2004 revisions): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2005 revisions): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition: Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (incl. 2007 revisions): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (incl. 2008 revisions): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (incl. 2009 revisions): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.5 incl. 2010 revisions): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.6 incl. 2011 revisions): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.7 incl. 2012 revisions): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.8 incl. 2013 revisions): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.9 incl. 2014 revisions): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.50: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.52: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.53: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.54: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.55: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (as published): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 1.2): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 2.1): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 3.1): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 4): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 5): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 6): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 7): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 8): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 4th edition (vol. 1-2): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World (vol 1-16): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.0: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.1: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.2: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.3: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.4: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.5: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.6: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.7: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.8: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.9: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.10: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.11: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.1: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.2: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.3: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.4: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.5: Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (24/10/2003): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (14/09/2005): Western Long-tailed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (16/07/2006): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (26/09/2007): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (01/05/2008): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (30/09/2009): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (19/08/2010): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (8/08/2011): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (8/02/2012): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (4/09/2012): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (17/03/2013): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (9/02/2014): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (16/02/2015): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (28/07/2016): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (22/04/2017): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (4/06/2018): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (6/06/2019): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (20/02/2020): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (8/06/2020): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (24/08/2021): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (24/07/2022): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (28/09/2023): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (27/07/2024): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (31/07/2025): Long-billed Hermit ( Phaethornis longirostris) [version 1] |
| Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Phaethornis longirostris [version 1] |
| Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Phaethornis longirostris [version 1] |
Taxonomic status:
Species status: species group (sometimes a species)
This taxon is a subspecies of
Phaethornis [superciliosus, longirostris, baroni, griseoventer or mexicanus]
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Other synonyms
See also the taxonomic synonyms table.
Catalan: Colibrí ermità becllarg
Czech: kolibřík západní
Danish: Langhalet Eremit
German: Westlicher Langschwanz-Schattenkolibri
English: Long-billed Hermit, Long-billed or Mexican Hermit, Long-billed, Baron's, Jalisco or Mexican Hermit, Western Long-tailed Hermit
Spanish: Ermitaño Colilargo, Ermitaño Colilargo Norteño
Spanish (Colombia): Ermitaño Colilargo
Spanish (Peru): Ermitaño de Pico Largo
Spanish (Venezuela): Ermitaño Pico Largo
Finnish: pohjanerakkokolibri
French: Ermite à longue queue, Ermite à longue queue ou E. de Hartert, Ermite à longue queue, E. de Baron, E. de Jalisco ou E. de Hartert
Hungarian: hosszúcsőrű remetekolibri
Italian: Eremita codalunga occidentale
Scientific: Ornismya longirostris, Phaethornis [longirostris or mexicanus], Phaethornis [longirostris, baroni, griseoventer or mexicanus], Phaethornis longirostris, Phaethornis longirostris longirostris
Lithuanian: Vakarinis saulėtasis kolibris
Dutch: Westelijke Langstaartheremietkolibrie
Norwegian: Veststjerteremitt
Polish: pustelnik dlugodzioby, pustelnik długodzioby
Portuguese: besourão-de-rabo-branco
Russian: Длинноклювый солнечный колибри
Slovak: slnečníček dlhozobý
Swedish: Långstjärtad eremit
Ukrainian: Ерміт мексиканський
Chinese: 西长尾隐蜂鸟
Chinese (Traditional): 長嘴隱蜂鳥
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