Stripe-breasted Starthroat
Heliomaster squamosus(Temminck, CJ, 1823)
English (US) Stripe-breasted Starthroat
The Stripe-breasted Starthroat (Heliomaster squamosus) 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: eastern Brazil (Pernambuco to Bahia, Goiás, and São Paulo)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Heliomaster squamosus
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Stripe-breasted Starthroat
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1823)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Trochilus squamosus
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1823)
- Type locality
- Brazil, restricted to Bahia by Pinto, Rev. Mus. Paulista, 22, 1938, p. 282.
- Original description
- Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon livr.34, vol.4 pl.203 fig.1
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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