Crowned woodnymph
species of bird
The crowned woodnymph (Thalurania colombica) or violet-crowned woodnymph, is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae.
It is found from Belize and Guatemala to far-northern Peru.
Taxonomy and systematics
The crowned woodnymph was formally described in 1843 by the French ornithologist Jules Bourcier from a specimen collected in Colombia. He coined the binomial name Ornismya colombica. This species is now placed in the genus Thalurania that was introduced by John Gould in 1848.
Seven subspecies are recognised:
T. c. townsendi Ridgway, 1888
T. c. venusta (Gould, 1851)
T. c. colombica (Bourcier, 1843)
T. c. rostrifera Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1956
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