Chlorostilbon elegans

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA CHORDATA AVES Apodiformes Trochilidae

Scientific Name: Chlorostilbon elegans
Species Authority: Dickinson, 2003
Common Name/s:
English Gould's Emerald

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Extinct     ver 3.1
Year Assessed: 2008
Assessor/s BirdLife International
Evaluator/s: Bird, J. & Butchart, S. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)
History:
2004 Extinct
2000 Extinct
1994 Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description: Chlorostilbon elegans, described from a single specimen (in Tring) by Gould in 1860, was recently shown by Weller to be a valid species, presumably extinct, and possibly (by inference) from Jamaica or the north Bahamas1.

Countries:
Regionally extinct:
Bahamas; Jamaica

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems: Terrestrial
Citation: BirdLife International 2008. Chlorostilbon elegans. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 18 March 2010.
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