Cassin's Spinetail
Neafrapus cassini(Sclater, PL, 1863)
English (US) Cassin's Spinetail
The Cassin's Spinetail (Neafrapus cassini) 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 Apodidae (Swifts) in the order Apodiformes.
Range: Sierra Leone and Liberia to northwestern Angola and western Uganda; BiokoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Neafrapus cassini
- Family
- Apodidae (Swifts)
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Cassin's Spinetail
- Described by
- (Sclater, PL, 1863)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Chaetura cassini
- Described by
- (Sclater, PL, 1863)
- Type locality
- Gaboon.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863, pt.2 p.205 pl.14 fig.2
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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