Diglossa carbonaria

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• Description
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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: semihumid/humid montane scrubs, elfin forests, montaine evergreen forests, arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub • Minimum Elevation: 2,200 meters • Maximum Elevation: 4,200 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Cuzco-Cochabamba • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Upper montaine: mountains, upper range, above 3,600 m. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.7     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Diglossa carbonaria (d`Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1838)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Orbigny & Lafresnaye In: Mag.Zool.8(Syn.Av.Amer.Merid.), 1838.

Last scrutiny: 11-Oct-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Diglossa

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 25 species and subspecies in this genus:

D. albilatera (White-Sided Flower Piercer) · D. albilatera albilatera (White-Sided Flower Piercer) · D. baritula (Cinnamon-Bellied Flower Piercer) · D. baritula baritula (Cinnamon-Bellied Flower Piercer) · D. brunneiventris (Black-Throated Flower Piercer) · D. brunneiventris brunneiventris (Black-Throated Flower Piercer) · D. caerulescens (Bluish Flower-Piercer) · D. carbonaria (Gray-Bellied Flowerpiercer) · D. carbonaria carbonaria (Grey-Bellied Flower-Piercer) · D. cyanea (Masked Flower-Piercer) · D. duidae (Scaled Flower Piercer) · D. glauca (Deep-Blue Flower-Piercer) · D. gloriosa (M?rida Flower-Piercer) · D. gloriosissima (Chestnut-Bellied Flower Piercer) · D. humeralis (Black Flower Piercer) · D. indigotica (Indigo Flower-Piercer) · D. lafresnayii (Glossy Flower Piercer) · D. major (Greater Flower Piercer) · D. major major (Greater Flower Piercer) · D. mystacalis (Moustached Flower Piercer) · D. mystacalis mystacalis (Moustached Flower Piercer) · D. plumbea (Slaty Flower Piercer) · D. plumbea plumbea (Slaty Flower-Piercer) · D. sittoides (Rusty Flower Piercer) · D. venezuelensis (Venezuelan Flower Piercer)

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Further Reading

• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 379.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 116, p. 117, p. 240.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 92 1943 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 319.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1935 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1935. url p. 226, p. 233.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 2, p. 6.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 402.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 206, p. 213.
• Postilla. 1968 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 39.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 273, p. 273.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 1073, p. 1074, p. 964.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 420.
• 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. 60.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Diglossa carbonaria. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• 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 11, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• 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.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7896
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-559780
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13756511
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 559780
• IUCN ID: 205360
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 137224

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