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Schistes

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Schistes is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae. It was long considered to have only one species, the wedge-billed hummingbird but this species was split. The genus now includes two species:

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Within Vinony's link graph, Schistes is referenced by 175 other articles, and connects out to Nyctibiidae, Aegotheliformes and Apodinae.

It sits within the topics Bird genera, Birds of the Northern Andes and Schistes.

Its subject is documented across 19 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. OrderApodiformes
  5. FamilyTrochilidae
Observations recorded16,489

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1
Family
Trochilidae
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NHMUK
Recorded in
Ecuador

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Parent taxon
Trochilidae
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Schistes is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae. It was long considered to have only one species, the wedge-billed hummingbird but this species was split. The genus now includes two species:

==References==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Schistes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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