Coppery-naped puffleg
Appearance
Coppery-naped puffleg | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Genus: | Eriocnemis |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | E. l. sapphiropygia
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Trinomial name | |
Eriocnemis luciani sapphiropygia Taczanowski, 1874
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Synonyms | |
Eriocnemis sapphiropygia |
The coppery-naped puffleg (Eriocnemis luciani sapphiropygia) is a subspecies of hummingbird found in the Andes in Peru in wet montane forest edges between 2000–4000 m altitude. It is usually considered a subspecies of the sapphire-vented puffleg, Eriocnemis luciani.
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Eriocnemis sapphiropygia". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. IUCN: e.T61162365A95165142. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T61162365A95165142.en. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 5, J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott & J. Sargatal (eds.), Barcelona, 1999
- Hummingbird splits