Biology:Guanacaste hummingbird

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Short description: Species of bird

Guanacaste hummingbird
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Amazilia
Species:
A. alfaroana
Binomial name
Amazilia alfaroana
(Underwood, 1896)
Amazilia alfaroana map.svg

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

Wikidata ☰ Q14644435 entry