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Andean Emerald
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Apodiformes
Family:Trochilidae
Genus:Amazilia
Species:A. franciae
Binomial name
Amazilia franciae
(Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846)


The Andean Emerald, Amazilia franciae, is a species of hummingbird. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. Many factors are taken into account when assessing the conservation status of a species: not simply the number remaining, but the
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Least Concern (LC) is an IUCN category assigned to extant species or lower taxa which have been evaluated but do not qualify for any other category. As such they do not qualify as threatened, nor Near Threatened, nor (prior to 2001) Conservation Dependent.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Apodiformes
Peters, 1940

Families

Apodidae
Hemiprocnidae
Trochilidae
Fossil forms, see text

Traditionally, the bird order Apodiformes
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Trochilidae
Vigors, 1825

Subfamilies

Phaethornithinae
Trochilinae

For a taxonomic list of genera, see:
  • List of hummingbirds in taxonomic order
For an alphabetic species list, see:
  • Alphabetic species list



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Amazilia
Lesson, 1843

species

see text

Amazilia is a genus of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. Some of these species are sometimes placed in the genera Agyrtria, Polyerata or Saucerottia
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binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is also called binominal nomenclature (particularly in zoological circles), binary nomenclature (particularly in botanical circles), or the binomial classification system.
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Jules Bourcier (1797 - March 9, 1873) was a French naturalist.

Bourcier was a trochilidist (an expert on hummingbirds), and named a number of new species, either alone or with other ornithologists such as Adolphe Delattre and Martial Etienne Mulsant.
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Martial Étienne Mulsant (March 2, 1797 - November 4, 1880) was a French entomologist and ornithologist.

Initially employed in commerce Mulsant wrote writes
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18th century - 19th century - 20th century
1810s  1820s  1830s  - 1840s -  1850s  1860s  1870s
1843 1844 1845 - 1846 - 1847 1848 1849

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Trochilidae
Vigors, 1825

Subfamilies

Phaethornithinae
Trochilinae

For a taxonomic list of genera, see:
  • List of hummingbirds in taxonomic order
For an alphabetic species list, see:
  • Alphabetic species list



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