| Scale-throated hermit | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Genus: | Phaethornis |
| Species: | P. eurynome |
| Binomial name | |
| Phaethornis eurynome Lesson, 1832 | |
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| Synonyms | |
| Phaethornis nigrirostris Ruschi, 1973 | |
The scale-throated hermit (Phaethornis eurynome) is a species in the hummingbird family, Trochilidae.
It is found in the Atlantic forest in north-eastern Argentina, south-eastern Brazil, and eastern Paraguay. It is generally fairly common, and consequently considered to be of least concern by BirdLife International and IUCN.[1]
The supposed "black-billed hermit", described as P. nigrirostris, has turned out to be a mutant P. eurynome with an all-black bill.[2]
Footnotes
- ^ a b BirdLife International (2012). "Phaethornis eurynome". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ Mallet-Rodrigues (2006)
References
- Mallet-Rodrigues, Francisco (2006): Táxons de aves de validade questionável com ocorrência no Brasil. III – Trochilidae (I) [Questionable bird taxa with occurrence in Brazil. III – Trochilidae (I)]. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 14(4): 475-479 [Portuguese with English abstract]. PDF fulltext