Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Sharpbill
Common Names in French:
Oxyrhynque Huppé
Common Names in German:
Flammenkopf
Description
Habitat
Vegetation: montaine evergreen forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest • Maximum Elevation: 1,800 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Upper tropical: higher slopes, 900-1,600 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: High
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,412 meters (0 to 4,633 feet).[1]
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Aves
()
- Birds
- Order:
Passeriformes
()
- Perching Birds
- Subfamily:
Cotinginae
()
- Genus:
Oxyruncus
()
- Temminck 1820 Man.Orn.[Temminck].ed.2 1 p.80[LXXX]
- Specific name:
cristatus
- Swainson 1821 Zool.Ill. 1 pl.49,text
- Scientific name: - Oxyruncus cristatus Swainson 1821
- Specific name:
cristatus
- Swainson 1821 Zool.Ill. 1 pl.49,text
- Genus:
Oxyruncus
(
- Subfamily:
Cotinginae
(
- Order:
Passeriformes
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 29-Nov-2006
Similar Species
Members of the genus Oxyruncus
There are approximately 6 species in this genus:
O. cristatus (Sharpbill) · O. cristatus brooksi · O. cristatus cristatus (Sharpbill) · O. cristatus frater · O. cristatus hypoglaucus · O. cristatus tocantinsi
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Further Reading
- BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
- BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
- Birds of the Acary Mountains, southern British Guiana [by] Emmet R. Blake. [Chicago]1950. ENG url p. 423.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 333, p. 334, p. 933.
- Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. New Haven: The Museum, ENG url p. 163, p. 182, p. 80.
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) ENG url p. 158, p. 236.
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 275, p. 343.
- Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1929. ENG url p. 2.
- Postilla. New Haven, Peabody Museum of Natural History, 1950-2004. ENG url p. 12.
- Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. ENG url p. 602, p. 603, p. 604, p. 609, p. 615, p. 622.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- 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.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 11, 2006.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 10, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- 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.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 10, 2008:
- Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3845937
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-561748
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13829356
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 561748
- IUCN ID: 50154
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 139777
Footnotes
- Mean = 968.560 meters (3,177.690 feet), Standard Deviation = 566.430 based on 9 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
