Flame-rumped sapphire
Flame-rumped sapphire | |
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Scientific classification ![]() (disputed) | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Genus: | Hylocharis |
Species: | H. pyropygia
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Binomial name | |
Hylocharis pyropygia |
The flame-rumped sapphire (Hylocharis pyropygia) is a doubtfully valid species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae known only from Brazil. Today few authorities accept it as valid, instead believing it represents a hybrid between Chlorostilbon lucidus and Hylocharis cyanus.
References[]
- BirdLife International 2004. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007.
Categories:
- Hylocharis
- Controversial bird taxa
- Birds of Brazil
- Birds described in 1881
- Taxa named by Osbert Salvin
- Taxa named by Frederick DuCane Godman
- Hummingbird stubs