Crimson-backed Sunbird
Leptocoma minima(Sykes, WH, 1832)
English (US) Crimson-backed Sunbird
The Crimson-backed Sunbird (Leptocoma minima) 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 Nectariniidae (Spiderhunters and Sunbirds) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: India (Western Ghats to hills of southern Kerala)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Leptocoma minima
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Crimson-backed Sunbird
- Described by
- (Sykes, WH, 1832)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Cinnyris minima
- Described by
- (Sykes, WH, 1832)
- Type locality
- Ghauts, Dukhun.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 2, no.18 p.99
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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