Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in Czech:
Todi Zelen
Common Names in Danish:
Jamaicatodi
Common Names in Dutch:
Jamaicaanse Todie
Common Names in English:
Jamaican Tody
Common Names in Estonian:
Jamaica Todi
Common Names in Finnish:
Jamaikantodi
Common Names in French:
Todier De Jama, Todier de la Jamaïque
Common Names in German:
Gr, Grüntodi
Common Names in Italian:
Todo Della Giamaica, Todo Della Iamaica
Common Names in Japanese:
Jamaikakobitodori, ジャマイカコビトドリ
Common Names in Latin:
Todus todus
Common Names in Polish:
Plaskodziobek Maly
Common Names in Spanish:
Barrancol
Description
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Habitat
Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, tropical deciduous forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands, tropical lowland evergreen forest, mangrove forests • Maximum Elevation: 1,800 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Jamaica • Foraging Strata: Midstory • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,308 meters (0 to 17,415 feet).[1]
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.5 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
- 1.7 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level
- 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
- 14 Artificial/Terrestrial
- 14.6 Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest [more info]
Taxonomy
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- 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:
Passerimorphae
()
- Sibley et al., 1988
- Order:
Coraciiformes
()
- Forbes, 1884
- Suborder:
Halcyones
()
- Forbes, 1884
- Infraorder:
Alcedinides
()
-
- Parvorder:
Todida
()
- Superfamily:
Alcedinoidea
()
- Stejneger, 1885
- Superfamily:
Alcedinoidea
(
- Parvorder:
Todida
(
- Infraorder:
Alcedinides
(
- Suborder:
Halcyones
(
- Order:
Coraciiformes
(
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Todus todus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 06-Dec-2005
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Todus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species and subspecies in this genus:
T. angustirostris (Narrow Billed Tody) · T. mexicanus (Hypochondriac Tody) · T. multicolor (Cuban Tody) · T. subulatus (Broad Billed Tody) · T. todus (Jamaican Tody)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- A list of the birds of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, Govt. print. off., 1920. url .
- Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url .
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , p. 443, p. 448.
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 151, p. 363, p. 384, p. 386.
- 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. 107.
- Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 368.
- Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 220.
- General zoology, or Systematic natural history, by George Shaw. .. with plates from the first authorities and most selected specimens, engraved principally by Mr. Heath. London, Printed for G. Kearsley, 1800-1826. url p. 305.
- Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, U.S.A.: The Museum, 1910-1943. url p. 107, p. 107.
- The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 239, p. 486, p. 529.
- The Riverside natural history. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company[c1888] url p. 399, p. 400.
- The birds of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other island Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1901- url , , .
- The standard natural history. Ed. by John Sterling Kingsley. Boston, S.E. Cassino and company, 1884-85. url p. 399, p. 400.
Notes
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Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2004. Todus todus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
- BirdLife International 2009. Todus todus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 05February2012.
- 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.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 06, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- 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.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
- 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.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 06, 2008:
- Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10958
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-554546
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13795298
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 554546
- IUCN ID: 246588
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 151458
Footnotes
- Mean = 553.880 meters (1,817.192 feet), Standard Deviation = 834.580 based on 116,783 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
