Indigo flowerpiercer
Indigo flowerpiercer | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thraupidae |
Genus: | Diglossa |
Species: | D. indigotica
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Binomial name | |
Diglossa indigotica (Sclater, 1856)
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Synonyms | |
Diglossopis indigotica |
The indigo flowerpiercer (Diglossa indigotica) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in humid forest on the lower west Andean slopes in northern Ecuador and Colombia.
References[]
- ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Diglossa indigotica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22723694A132023756. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22723694A132023756.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- Mauck, & Burns (2009). Phylogeny, biogeography, and recurrent evolution of divergent bill types in the nectar-stealing flowerpiercers (Thraupini: Diglossa and Diglossopis). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 98 (1): 14–28.
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Diglossa (bird)
- Birds of the Colombian Andes
- Birds of the Ecuadorian Andes
- Birds described in 1856
- Taxa named by Philip Sclater
- Thraupidae stubs