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Metallura
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The metaltails are a group of hummingbirds in the genus Metallura. The species are distributed along the Andes.
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Vinony's link graph records 183 inbound references to Metallura, and connects out to Nyctibiidae, Aegotheliformes and Apodinae.
Vinony files it under Birds of the Northern Andes, Metallura and Taxonomy articles created by Polbot.
Vinony links it to 25 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderApodiformes
- FamilyTrochilidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 18
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Trochilidae
- Collections
- CMNH, USNM, NHMUK, LSUMZ
- Recorded in
- Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
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- Parent taxon
- Trochilinae
- Image
- Tyrian Metaltail (Metallura tyrianthina).jpg
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- Taxonomy and species list
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The metaltails are a group of hummingbirds in the genus Metallura. The species are distributed along the Andes.
==Taxonomy and species list== The genus Metallura was introduced by the English ornithologist John Gould in 1847. The type species was subsequently designated as the black metaltail.
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