Mexican Sheartail
Doricha eliza(Lesson, RP; Delattre, PA, 1839)
English (US) Mexican Sheartail
The Mexican Sheartail (Doricha eliza) 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: hills of Barranca de Naolinco, central Veracruz (east-central Mexico), and disjunctly in coastal thornscrub and gardens of northwestern to north-central Yucatan Peninsula (southeastern Mexico)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Doricha eliza
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Mexican Sheartail
- Described by
- (Lesson, RP; Delattre, PA, 1839)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Trochilus eliza
- Described by
- (Lesson, RP; Delattre, PA, 1839)
- Type locality
- Between Vera Cruz and Jalapa, Vera Cruz, Mexico.
- Original description
- Revue Zoologique, par la Société Cuvierienne 2 p.20
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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