Biology:Guanacaste hummingbird
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Short description: Species of bird
| Guanacaste hummingbird | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Genus: | Amazilia |
| Species: | A. alfaroana
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| Binomial name | |
| Amazilia alfaroana (Underwood, 1896)
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The guanacaste hummingbird or Alfero's hummingbird[2] (Amazilia alfaroana) is a possibly extinct species of hummingbird known only from a holotype collected in 1895 at the Miravalles Volcano in Costa Rica.
Taxonomy
It is usually treated as a subspecies of the Indigo-capped hummingbird or a hybrid between two unknown hummingbird species, but analysis of the holotype suggests it is its own species.[3]
Conservation
It is possibly extinct, but the ecological stability of the area where the specimen was found indicates a possible undiscovered population still existing.[4] The IUCN classifies it as critically endangered.[5]
References
- ↑ "Guanacaste Hummingbird". 2020-08-30. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/119194112/178574309.
- ↑ Government of Canada, Public Services and Procurement Canada (2009-10-08). "AMAZILIA ALFAROANA [1 record - TERMIUM Plus® — Search - TERMIUM Plus®"]. https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=&index=frw&srchtxt=AMAZILIA%20ALFAROANA.
- ↑ Kirwan, Guy M.; Collar, Nigel J. (2016-11-10). "The 'foremost ornithological mystery of Costa Rica': Amazilia alfaroana Underwood, 1896". Zootaxa 4189 (2): zootaxa.4189.2.2. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4189.2.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 27988731. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27988731/.
- ↑ "Lost Birds" (in en). http://www.rewild.org/lost-species/lost-birds.
- ↑ "Guanacaste Hummingbird". 2020-08-30. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/119194112/178574309.
Wikidata ☰ Q14644435 entry
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