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.
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]
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. [1]
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
|
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.
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]
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. [1]