Black Spinetail
Telacanthura melanopygia(Chapin, JP, 1915)
English (US) Black Spinetail
The Black Spinetail (Telacanthura melanopygia) 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 to southern Ghana, Gabon, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northeastern AngolaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Telacanthura melanopygia
- Family
- Apodidae (Swifts)
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Black Spinetail
- Described by
- (Chapin, JP, 1915)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Chaetura melanopygia
- Described by
- (Chapin, JP, 1915)
- Type locality
- Avakubi, Ituri District, Belgian Congo.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34 p.509
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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Madagascar Spinetail
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White-rumped Spinetail
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