Species profile
Metallura jelskii
Metallura jelskii
Quick answer
Type series: Cabanis (1874: 99 – 100) based this species on two specimens in spirit, collected by Jelski on an unknown date or dates and an unknown locality or localities. Both these syntypes are still in the ZMB. The MIZ thus never possessed types of this species (contra Taczanowski 1889: 11, Sztolcman & Domaniewski 1927: 111; see Mlíkovský 2009 b for details). Syntype: ZMB 21363, unsexed, collected by Jelski on an unknown date [= May to September 1871] at " Maraynioc? " [= Maraynioc, Peru]. Received in spirit (cf. Cabanis 1874: 97).
- Scientific name
- Metallura jelskii
- Family
- Trochilidae
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Genus
- Metallura
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