Booted racket-tail

Booted racket-tail
male "Anna's" racket-tail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Subfamily: Trochilinae
Genus: Ocreatus
Gould, 1846

The booted racket-tails, a small group of hummingbirds in the genus Ocreatus that was long considered to have only one species, O. underwoodii; field research by Karl-L. Schuchmann published in 2016 found notable differences between some populations traditionally assigned to O. underwoodii, however, and recommended that the taxa annae, addae, and peruanus be raised to species level.[1] The research results have been mostly accepted by the IOC, with more data required for the species status of Anna's racket-tail.[2] The American Ornithological Society has yet to recognize the split.

References

  1. ↑ "Biogeography and taxonomy of racket-tail hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae: Ocreatus): Evidence for species delimitation from morphology and display behavior".  Zootaxa. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4200.1.3.
  2. ↑
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