Guanacaste hummingbird | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Genus: | Saucerottia |
Species: | S. alfaroana |
Binomial name | |
Saucerottia alfaroana (Underwood, 1896) | |
Synonyms | |
Amazilia alfaroana |
The Guanacaste hummingbird, also known as the Alfaro's hummingbird or Miravalles hummingbird [2] (Saucerottia 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]
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