Long-tailed Ground Roller
Uratelornis chimaeraRothschild, LW, 1895
English (US) Long-tailed Ground Roller
The Long-tailed Ground Roller (Uratelornis chimaera) 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 Brachypteraciidae (Ground Rollers) in the order Coraciiformes.
Range: subdesert of southwestern MadagascarRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Uratelornis chimaera
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Long-tailed Ground Roller
- Described by
- Rothschild, LW, 1895
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Rothschild, LW, 1895
- Type locality
- Madagascar.
- Original description
- Novitates Zoologicae 2 p.479
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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