Bronze-tailed comet
Appearance
Bronze-tailed comet | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Genus: | Polyonymus Heine, 1863 |
Species: | P. caroli
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Binomial name | |
Polyonymus caroli Bourcier, 1847
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The bronze-tailed comet (Polyonymus caroli) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is monotypic within the genus Polyonymus.[2] It is endemic to scrub and forest-edge at altitudes of 2,100–3,400 m (6,900–11,200 ft) in the Andes of Peru.[3]
References
- ^ Template:IUCN
- ^ "ITIS Report: Polyonymus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
- ^ Schulenberg, Thomas S.; Stotz, Douglas F.; Lane, Daniel F.; O'Neill, John P.; Parker III, Theodore A. (2007). Birds of Peru. Princeton, NJ, USA: Princeton University Press. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-691-13023-1.
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