Chaetocercus
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Chaetocercus is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.
==Taxonomy== The genus Chaetocercus was introduced in 1855 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray with the rufous-shafted woodstar as the type species. The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek words khaitē, meaning "hair" and kerkos, meaning "tail".
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