Metaltails | |
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Tyrian metaltail (Metallura tyrianthina) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Lesbiini |
Genus: | Metallura Gould, 1847 |
Type species | |
Trochilus cupricauda[1] = Ornismya phoebe Gould, 1846
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The metaltails are a group of hummingbirds in the genus Metallura. The species are distributed along the Andes.[2][3]
Heindl et al., 1998
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).