Green-crowned plovercrest | |
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In São Paulo, Brazil | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Genus: | Stephanoxis |
Species: | S. lalandi
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Binomial name | |
Stephanoxis lalandi (Vieillot, 1818)
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Synonyms | |
Plovercrest |
The green-crowned plovercrest, also black-breasted plovercrest or simply plovercrest, (Stephanoxis lalandi) is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is endemic to Brazil.[3][4]