Overview
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Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Violet-throated Metaltail
Common Names in French:
Métallure de Baron
Common Names in German:
Purpurkehl-Glanzschwänzchen
Common Names in Japanese:
フジノドテリオハチドリ
Common Names in Spanish:
Metalura de Azuay, Metalura Gorjivioleta
Description
Habitat
Vegetation: elfin forests, polyepis woodlands, semihumid/humid montane scrubs • Minimum Elevation: 3,100 meters • Maximum Elevation: 3,700 meters • Zoogeographic Region: o • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Upper montaine: mountains, upper range, above 3,600 m. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium
Ecology:
It is confined to the edge
of the páramo zone in elfin forest
and treeline shrubbery, and open páramo, generally near Polylepis
woodland, at 3,150-3,700 m.
Its ecology is poorly known. A nest
with
one egg
was found in April6. Its main nectar resources
are: Brachyotum spp.
(Melastomataceae), Berberis spp.
(Berberiaceae), and Barnadesia spp.(Asteraceae). It prefers
to forage
near the ground
.
[1].
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
- 4 Grassland
- 4.7 Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude [more info]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Aves
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Subclass:
Avialae
()
- Gauthier, 1986
- Infraclass:
Aves
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cohort:
Neognathae
()
- Pycraft, 1900
- Superorder:
Cypselomorphae
()
- Huxley, 1867
- Order:
Apodiformes
()
- Peters, 1940
- Suborder:
Apodi
()
- Peters, 1940
- Family:
Trochilidae
()
- Vigors, 1825
- Subfamily:
Trochilinae
()
- Genus:
Metallura
()
- Gould, 1847
- Specific name:
baroni
- Salvin 1893
- Scientific name: - Metallura baroni Salvin, 1893 Salvin 1893
- Specific name:
baroni
- Salvin 1893
- Genus:
Metallura
(
- Subfamily:
Trochilinae
(
- Family:
Trochilidae
(
- Suborder:
Apodi
(
- Order:
Apodiformes
(
- Superorder:
Cypselomorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Salvin, O. Description
of a new genus and species
of Papilionidae from Mexico. Salvin, O. (1893) Description of
a new genus and species of Papilionidae from Mexico. The Transactions
of the Entomological Society of London 41(4): 331-332., 1893.
Last scrutiny: 06-Dec-2005
Similar Species
Members of the genus Metallura
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 13 species and subspecies in this genus:
M. aeneocauda (Scaled Metaltail) · M. aeneocauda aeneocauda (Scaled Metaltail) · M. baroni (Violet-Throated Metaltail) · M. eupogon (Fiery-Throated Metaltail) · M. iracunda (Perijá Metaltail) · M. odomae (Neblina Metaltail) · M. phoebe (Black Metaltail) · M. theresiae (Coppery Metaltail) · M. theresiae theresiae (Coppery Metaltail) · M. tyrianthina (Tyrian Metaltail) · M. tyrianthina tyrianthina (Tyrian Metaltail) · M. williami (Viridian Metaltail) · M. williami williami (Viridian Metaltail)
More Info
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Further Reading
- 1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1993 url p. 53.
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. London: The Club, 1893- url , p. 31.
- Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. including all species and subspecies known to occur in North America, Mexico, Central America, South America, the West Indies, and islands of the Caribbean Sea, the Galapagos Archipelago, and other is by Charles E. Hellmayr and Boardman Conover. 13 1918 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1918. url p. 269.
- Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 119.
- Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 181, p. 238.
- Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 238.
- Checklist of birds listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 187, p. 257, p. 277.
- Genera of humming birds: being also a complete monograph of these birds / by Adolphe Boucard. London: [A. Boucard?], 1893-1895 [i.e. 1895] url p. 397, p. 397.
- Ornithological gazetteer of Ecuador / Raymond A. Paynter, Jr. Cambridge, Mass.: Obtainable from Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, c1993. url p. 229, p. 237, p. 240.
- Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, U.S.A.: The Museum, 1910-1943. url p. 269.
- Trochilidae, bearbeitet von Ernst Hartert. Mit 34 abbildungen im texte. Berlin, R. Friedländer und sohn, 1900. url p. 161.
- Type-specimens of birds in the British Museum (Natural History) / by R.L.M. Warren & C.J.O. Harrison. London: BM(NH), 1966-1973. url p. 30.
- Types of birds in the Tring Museum. n. p., 1922? url .
- World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 163, p. 259, p. 162, p. 238.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2004. Metallura baroni. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
- BirdLife International 2008. Metallura baroni. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10235
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-555271
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13813134
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 555271
- IUCN ID: 223044
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 7471
Footnotes
- BirdLife International 2008. Metallura baroni. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]
