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Guanacaste hummingbird

Topic: Biology

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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

  1. ↑ "Guanacaste Hummingbird". 2020-08-30. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/119194112/178574309. 
  2. ↑ Government of Canada, Public Services and Procurement Canada (2009-10-08). "AMAZILIA ALFAROANA [1 record - TERMIUM Plus® — Search - TERMIUM Plus®"]. https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=&index=frw&srchtxt=AMAZILIA%20ALFAROANA. 
  3. ↑ Kirwan, Guy M.; Collar, Nigel J. (2016-11-10). "The 'foremost ornithological mystery of Costa Rica': Amazilia alfaroana Underwood, 1896". Zootaxa 4189 (2): zootaxa.4189.2.2. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4189.2.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 27988731. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27988731/. 
  4. ↑ "Lost Birds" (in en). http://www.rewild.org/lost-species/lost-birds. 
  5. ↑ "Guanacaste Hummingbird". 2020-08-30. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/119194112/178574309. 

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