Biology:Wallace's owlet-nightjar
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Short description: Species of bird
| Wallace's owlet-nightjar | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Aegotheliformes |
| Family: | Aegothelidae |
| Genus: | Aegotheles |
| Species: | A. wallacii
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| Binomial name | |
| Aegotheles wallacii G.R. Gray, 1859
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Wallace's owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles wallacii) is a species of bird in the family Aegothelidae. It is found in New Guinea.
It is named after Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, and biologist.[2]
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2017). "Aegotheles wallacii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T22689568A118125873. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22689568A118125873.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22689568/118125873. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 357–358.
Wikidata ☰ Q1262906 entry
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