Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Blue-tailed Trogon, Choco Trogon, White-eyed Trogon
Common Names in French:
Trogon aux yeux blancs
Common Names in German:
Blauschwanztrogon
Common Names in Japanese:
アイオキヌバネドリ
Description
Habitat
Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, montaine evergreen forests • Maximum Elevation: 1,800 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Hill tropical: hills and lower slopes, 500-900 m; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
- 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane [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:
Trogonomorphae
()
- B.C. Livezey & R.L. Zusi, 2007
- Order:
Trogoniformes
()
- Wetmore & Miller, 1926
- Family:
Trogonidae
()
- Lesson, 1828
- Subfamily:
Trogoninae
()
- Subfamily:
Trogoninae
(
- Family:
Trogonidae
(
- Order:
Trogoniformes
(
- Superorder:
Trogonomorphae
(
- 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
.
Last scrutiny: 29-Jun-2005
Similar Species
Members of the genus Trogon
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 37 species and subspecies in this genus:
T. aurantiiventris (Orange-Bellied Trogon) · T. aurantiiventris aurantiiventris (Orange-Bellied Trogon) · T. bairdii (Baird's Trogon) · T. caligatus (Gartered Trogon) · T. chionurus (Western White-Tailed Trogon) · T. citreolus (Citreoline Trogon) · T. citreolus citreolus (Citreoline Trogon) · T. clathratus (Lattice-Tailed Trogon) · T. collaris (Collared Trogon) · T. collaris collaris (Collared Trogon) · T. comptus (Blue-Tailed Trogon) · T. curucui (Blue-Crowned Trogon) · T. curucui curucui (Blue-Crowned Trogon) · T. elegans (Coppery-Tailed Trogon) · T. elegans ambiguus (Elegant Trogon) · T. elegans canescens (Elegant Trogon) · T. elegans elegans (Elegant Trogon) · T. massena (Slaty-Tailed Trogon) · T. massena massena (Slaty-Tailed Trogon) · T. melanocephalus (Black-Headed Trogon) · T. melanocephalus melanocephalus (Black-Headed Trogon) · T. melanurus (Black-Tailed Trogon) · T. melanurus melanurus (Black-Tailed Trogon) · T. mesurus (Ecuadorian Trogon) · T. mexicanus (Mountain Trogon) · T. mexicanus mexicanus (Mountain Trogon) · T. personatus (Masked Trogon) · T. personatus personatus (Masked Trogon) · T. ramonianus (Amazonian Trogon) · T. rufus (Black-Throated Trogon) · T. rufus rufus (Black-Throated Trogon) · T. surrucura (Suruca Trogon) · T. surrucura surrucura (Surucua Trogon) · T. violaceus (Guianan Trogon) · T. violaceus violaceus (Violaceous Trogon) · T. viridis (Amazonian White-Tailed Trogon) · T. viridis viridis (Amazonian White-Tailed Trogon)
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Further Reading
- ANIMALIA
- 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.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2004. Trogon comptus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
- BirdLife International 2009. Trogon comptus. 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 February 3, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 09, 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.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 09, 2008:
- Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 11099
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-554494
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13730731
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 554494
- IUCN ID: 247361
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 151207
