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Coppery Thorntail - BirdForum Opus

Skull2 t.png The species Coppery Thorntail is possibly extinct.
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Alternative name: Letitia's Thorntail

Discosura letitiae

Popelairia letitiae

Identification

Distribution

South America; this species is only known from two specimens taken prior to 1852 labeled Bolivia, but borders have changed and descriptions of location were often unreliable anyway in that period [2]

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Discosura vs. Popelairia

Sibley & Monroe (1996) place Wire-crested Thorntail (popelairii), Black-bellied Thorntail (langsdorffi), and Coppery Thorntail (letitiae) in the genus Popelairia. However, Howard & Moore (2003) and Clements (2008) place these three taxa in Discosura, and Opus follows.

Habitat

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
  2. BirdLife Species Factsheet as read on 3/3/2008

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