Beautiful Sheartail
Calothorax pulcherGould, J, 1859
English (US) Beautiful Sheartail
The Beautiful Sheartail (Calothorax pulcher) 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 scrub of southern Mexico (Guerrero and southern Puebla to eastern Oaxaca)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Calothorax pulcher
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Beautiful Sheartail
- Described by
- Gould, J, 1859
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Calothorax pulchra
- Described by
- Gould, J, 1859
- Type locality
- Oaxaca.
- Original description
- The Annals and Magazine of Natural History including Zoology, Botany, and Geology ser.3, vol.4, no.20 p.97
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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