Purple-crowned Plovercrest
Stephanoxis loddigesii(Gould, J, 1831)
English (US) Purple-crowned Plovercrest
The Purple-crowned Plovercrest (Stephanoxis loddigesii) 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 Paraguay and northeastern Argentina (Misiones) to southern BrazilRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Stephanoxis loddigesii
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Purple-crowned Plovercrest
- Described by
- (Gould, J, 1831)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Trochilus Loddigesii
- Described by
- (Gould, J, 1831)
- Type locality
- Rio Grande.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 1, no.1 p.12
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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