Flame-rumped sapphire

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| name = Flame-rumped sapphire

| image = EucephalaPyropygaKeulemans.jpg

| status =

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| classification_status = disputed

| genus = Hylocharis

| species = pyropygia

| authority = Salvin & Godman, 1881

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The flame-rumped sapphire (Hylocharis pyropygia) is a doubtfully valid species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae known only from Brazil. Today few authorities accept it as valid, instead believing it represents a hybrid between Chlorostilbon lucidus and Hylocharis cyanus.

References

  • BirdLife International 2004. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140627094911/http://www.iucnredlist.org/ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 10 July 2007.

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Category:Hylocharis

Category:Controversial hummingbird taxa

Category:Birds of Brazil

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

flame-rumped sapphire

flame-rumped sapphire

flame-rumped sapphire

Category:Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN

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