Eutoxeres | |
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Buff-tailed sicklebill, Eutoxeres condamini | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Subfamily: | Phaethornithinae |
Genus: | Eutoxeres Reichenbach, 1849 |
Type species | |
Trochilus aquila [1] Bourcier, 1847 | |
Species | |
2, see text |
Eutoxeres is a genus of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae.
The genus contains the following species:
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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White-tipped sicklebill | Eutoxeres aquila (Bourcier, 1847) Three subspecies
| Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and far northern Peru | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
Buff-tailed sicklebill | Eutoxeres condamini (Bourcier, 1851) | southern Colombia and northern Ecuador to Peru and Bolivia | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
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