Racket-tipped Thorntail
Discosura longicaudus(Gmelin, JF, 1788)
English (US) Racket-tipped Thorntail
The Racket-tipped Thorntail (Discosura longicaudus) 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: tropical southern Venezuela to the Guianas and eastern BrazilRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Discosura longicaudus
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Racket-tipped Thorntail
- Described by
- (Gmelin, JF, 1788)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Trochilus longicaudus
- Described by
- (Gmelin, JF, 1788)
- Type locality
- No type locality; Cayenne designated by Berlepsch and Hartert, Nov. Zool., 9, 1902, p. 89.
- Original description
- Systema Naturae. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Cura Jo. Frid. Gmelin (etc.). Tomus I [pars I] p.498
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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