Venezuelan Sylph
Aglaiocercus berlepschi(Hartert, EJO, 1898)
English (US) Venezuelan Sylph
The Venezuelan Sylph (Aglaiocercus berlepschi) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Trochilidae (Hummingbirds) in the order Apodiformes.
Range: mountains of northeastern Venezuela (Sucre and Monagas)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Aglaiocercus berlepschi
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Venezuelan Sylph
- Described by
- (Hartert, EJO, 1898)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Cyanolesbia berlepschi
- Described by
- (Hartert, EJO, 1898)
- Type locality
- Cumana, Venezuela.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 8 p.16
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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