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Schistes

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Schistes is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae. It was long considered to have only one species, the wedge-billed hummingbird but this species was split. The genus now includes two species:

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. OrderApodiformes
  5. FamilyTrochilidae
Observations recorded16,489

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Specimen records
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Family
Trochilidae
Collections
NHMUK
Recorded in
Ecuador

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Parent taxon
Trochilidae
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Schistes is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae. It was long considered to have only one species, the wedge-billed hummingbird but this species was split. The genus now includes two species:

==References==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Schistes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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