Sabine's spinetail | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Apodidae |
Genus: | Rhaphidura |
Species: | R. sabini
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Binomial name | |
Rhaphidura sabini (Gray, JE, 1829)
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Sabine's spinetail (/ˈseɪbɪn/ SAY-bin; Rhaphidura sabini, sometimes spelled Raphidura sabini) is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. It is widespread across the African tropical rainforest.[2]
Its common name and Latin binomial commemorate General Sir Edward Sabine.