Purple-crowned plovercrest | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Genus: | Stephanoxis |
Species: | S. loddigesii
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Binomial name | |
Stephanoxis loddigesii (Vigors, 1831)
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Synonyms | |
Stephanoxis lalandi loddigesii |
The purple-crowned plovercrest, or violet-crowned plovercrest, (Stephanoxis loddigesii) is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.[3][4]