Green-backed Trogon
Trogon viridisLinnaeus, C, 1766
English (US) Green-backed Trogon
The Green-backed Trogon (Trogon viridis) 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 Trogonidae (Trogons) in the order Trogoniformes.
Range: east of the Andes from Colombia southward to Peru and Bolivia, and eastward to Trinidad, the Guianas, and eastern Brazil (to Maranhão and Mato Grosso; also Alagoas, and from Bahia southward to São PauloRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Trogon viridis
- Family
- Trogonidae (Trogons)
- Order
- Trogoniformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Green-backed Trogon
- Described by
- Linnaeus, C, 1766
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Linnaeus, C, 1766
- Type locality
- Cayenne.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ. Editio duodecima reformata. Tomus I [part 1] p.167
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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