Sao Tome Spinetail
Zoonavena thomensis(Hartert, EJO, 1900)
English (US) Sao Tome Spinetail
The Sao Tome Spinetail (Zoonavena thomensis) 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: mountains of São Tomé and PrÃncipe (Gulf of Guinea)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Zoonavena thomensis
- Family
- Apodidae (Swifts)
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Sao Tome Spinetail
- Described by
- (Hartert, EJO, 1900)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Chaetura thomensis
- Described by
- (Hartert, EJO, 1900)
- Type locality
- Pedroma, Sao Thome.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 10 p.53
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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