Brace's emerald
Brace's emerald | |
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Artist rendition | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Genus: | Riccordia |
Species: | †R. bracei
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Binomial name | |
†Riccordia bracei (Lawrence, 1877)
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Brace's emerald (Riccordia bracei) is an
Description
Its weight was 0.43 oz (12.3 g), its wingspan was 9.25", its length was 5.5" and the length of its tail was 2.5". The black
Status and extinction
For more than a hundred years, Brace's emerald was only known by the
Not until the 1930s was the unique status of the holotype even recognized, as it was seen as an aberrant specimen of the Cuban emerald that had become a vagrant to New Providence. American ornithologist James Bond was the first to discuss the differences between R. ricordii and R. bracei. In 1945, he split R. ricordii and regarded R. ricordii bracei as a new subspecies. In contrast to the Cuban species, the specimen from New Providence was smaller, had a longer bill and a different plumage.
In 1982, palaeornithologists William Hilgartner and
References
- ^ Birdlife International (2022). "Riccordia bracei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T22687333A208112544. Retrieved 2022-12-18.
- ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ^ "Hummingbird (search)". International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species. 2024. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
Further reading
- Flannery, Tim & Schouten, Peter (2001): A Gap in Nature