Lucifer Sheartail
Calothorax lucifer(Swainson, WJ, 1827)
English (US) Lucifer Sheartail
The Lucifer Sheartail (Calothorax lucifer) 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: arid mountains of southwestern USA and northern Mexico; winters to southern MexicoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Calothorax lucifer
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Lucifer Sheartail
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1827)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Cynanthus Lucifer
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1827)
- Type locality
- Temescai 1 tepee, Mexico
- Original description
- The Philosophical Magazine, New Series n.s., 1 p.442
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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