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Booted racket-tail
male Anna's racket-tail
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Ocreatus

Gould, 1846

Ocreatus is a genus of hummingbird that was long considered to have only one species, the booted racket-tail O. underwoodii; field research by Karl-L. Schuchmann published in 2016 found notable differences between some populations traditionally assigned to O. underwoodii, however, and recommended that the taxa annae, addae, and peruanus be raised to species level.[1] The research results have been mostly accepted by the IOC, with more data required for the species status of Anna's racket-tail.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Biogeography and taxonomy of racket-tail hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae: Ocreatus): Evidence for species delimitation from morphology and display behavior".  Zootaxa. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4200.1.3.
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