Booted racket-tail
| Booted racket-tail | |
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| male "Anna's" racket-tail | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Tribe: | Heliantheini |
| Genus: | Ocreatus Gould, 1846 |
The booted racket-tails, a small group of hummingbirds in the genus Ocreatus that was long considered to have only one species, 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] The American Ornithological Society has yet to recognize the split.
- Peruvian racket-tail (Ocreatus peruanus)
- Rufous-booted racket-tail (Ocreatus addae)
- White-booted racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii)
References
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