| Short-tailed woodstar | |
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| Myrmia micrura - Short-tailed Woodstar (song) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Tribe: | Mellisugini |
| Genus: | Myrmia Mulsant, 1876 |
| Species: | M. micrura
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| Binomial name | |
| Myrmia micrura (Gould, 1854)
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| Synonyms | |
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Calothorax micrurus[3] | |
The short-tailed woodstar (Myrmia micrura) is a species of hummingbird in tribe Mellisugini of subfamily Trochilinae, the "bee hummingbirds". It is the only species placed in the genus Myrmia. It is found in Ecuador and Peru.[4][5]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Short-tailed Woodstar Myrmia micrura". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22688248A93189230. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22688248A93189230.en. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
- ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ^ Schulenberg, T. S. and C. W. Sedgwick (2020). Short-tailed Woodstar (Myrmia micrura), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.shtwoo1.01 retrieved July 23, 2022
- ^ Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P., eds. (January 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List. v 12.1. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
- ^ HBW and BirdLife International (2020) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world Version 5. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip [.xls zipped 1 MB] retrieved 27 May 2021