Elegant Crescentchest
Melanopareia elegans(Lesson, RP, 1844)
English (US) Elegant Crescentchest
The Elegant Crescentchest (Melanopareia elegans) 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 Melanopareiidae (Crescentchests) in the order Passeriformes.
- Scientific name
- Melanopareia elegans
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Elegant Crescentchest
- Described by
- (Lesson, RP, 1844)
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The AviList checklist recognises 2 subspecies for this species.
- Melanopareia elegans elegans
- Melanopareia elegans paucalensis
Taxonomic history
- First described as
- Synallaxis elegans
- Described by
- (Lesson, RP, 1844)
- Type locality
- Guayaquil.
- Original description
- L'Écho du Monde Savant (2), 11 no.13 col.303
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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