Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Booted Racket Tail, Booted Racket-tail
Common Names in French:
Haut-de-chausses à palettes
Common Names in German:
Flaggensylphe
Common Names in Japanese:
ラケットハチドリ
Description
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Habitat
Vegetation: montaine evergreen forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands • Minimum Elevation: 1,050 meters • Maximum Elevation: 2,500 meters • Foraging Strata: Understory/undergrowth • Center of Abundance: Upper montaine: mountains, upper range, above 3,600 m. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,031 meters (0 to 16,506 feet).[1]
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
- 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
- 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:
Ocreatus
()
- Gould 1846
- Specific name:
underwoodii
- (Lesson) 1832
- Scientific name: - Ocreatus underwoodii (Lesson, 1832) (Lesson) 1832
- Specific name:
underwoodii
- (Lesson) 1832
- Genus:
Ocreatus
(
- Subfamily:
Trochilinae
(
- Family:
Trochilidae
(
- Suborder:
Apodi
(
- Order:
Apodiformes
(
- Superorder:
Cypselomorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Ocreatus underwoodii (Lesson, 1832)
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 06-Dec-2005
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Ocreatus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species and subspecies in this genus:
O. underwoodii (Booted Racket Tail) · O. underwoodii underwoodii (Booted Racket Tail)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 131, p. 189.
- 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. 139.
- Checklist of birds listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 133.
- Ornithological gazetteer of Colombia / Raymond A. Paynter, Jr. Cambridge, Mass.: Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1997. url p. 527.
- 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. 23.
- World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 163, p. 163.
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. Ocreatus underwoodii. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
- BirdLife International 2009. Ocreatus underwoodii. 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 15, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 06, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 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.
- 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:
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection
- New Brunswick Museum: NBM birds
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10227
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-693836
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13525830
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 555263
- IUCN ID: 227605
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 132639
Footnotes
- Mean = 616.730 meters (2,023.392 feet), Standard Deviation = 836.860 based on 71,323 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
