Slender Sheartail Doricha enicura Scientific name definitions
- LC Least Concern
- Names (20)
- Monotypic
A. Townsend Peterson and Peter F. D. Boesman
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 1, 1999
Text last updated January 1, 1999
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Catalan | colibrí cua d'oreneta |
| Czech | kalypta štíhlá |
| Dutch | Kleine Schaarstaartkolibrie |
| English | Slender Sheartail |
| English (United States) | Slender Sheartail |
| French | Colibri à queue singulière |
| French (France) | Colibri à queue singulière |
| German | Scherenschwanz-Sternkolibri |
| Japanese | トガリエンビハチドリ |
| Norwegian | guatemalaklypestjert |
| Polish | koliberek brzytwosterny |
| Russian | Стройный искрохвост |
| Slovak | čmeľovec nožnicochvostý |
| Spanish | Colibrí Colirraro |
| Spanish (Honduras) | Colibrí Tijereta |
| Spanish (Mexico) | Colibrí Tijereta Guatemalteco |
| Spanish (Spain) | Colibrí colirraro |
| Swedish | guatemalasaxstjärt |
| Turkish | Çatal Kuyruklu Ormanyıldızı |
| Ukrainian | Колібрі-вилохвіст сальвадорський |
Doricha enicura (Vieillot, 1818)
PROTONYM:
Trochilus enicurus
Vieillot, 1818. Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Nouvelle édition 23, p.429.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Brazil, error = Guatemala.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- DORICHA
- enicura / enicurus
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Originally Appeared in
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding
Distribution of the Slender Sheartail
