Brace's Emerald
Riccordia bracei(Lawrence, GN, 1877)
English (US) Brace's Emerald
The Brace's Emerald (Riccordia bracei) 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: formerly northern Bahamas; extinct, last reported 1877Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Riccordia bracei
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Extinct
- English (US)
- Brace's Emerald
- Described by
- (Lawrence, GN, 1877)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Sporadinus Bracei
- Described by
- (Lawrence, GN, 1877)
- Type locality
- New Providence, Bahama Islands.
- Original description
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1 no.1&2 p.50
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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