Heliangelus zusii Graves, 1993

Bogotá sunangel

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Now considered a hybrid (Aglaiocercus kingii (female) x unknown (male)) (Pérez-Emán et al. 2017), it was previously considered a valid species (Kirchman et al. 2010).

Conservation Status

Invalid (hybrid)

Last record: 1909

IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient

Distribution

Colombia?

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Holotype: ANSP 159261 (male?)

Type locality: unknown (purchased in Bogotá, Colombia)

Media

For a photo of the only known specimen, see: http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=apodiformes&action=display&thread=7864&page=2

References

Original scientific description:

Graves, Gary R. (1993). Relic of a lost world: A new species of sunangel (Trochilidae: Heliangelus) from "Bogota". Auk 110(1): 1-8.

Other references:

BirdLife International. (2000). Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge.

BirdLife International. (2012). Heliangelus zusii. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 24 August 2013.

Brewer, David. (2018). Birds New to Science: Fifty Years of Avian Discoveries (Helm Photographic Guide Series). Christopher Helm. 416 pp.

Kirchman, Jeremy J., Witt, Christopher C., McGuire, Jimmy A. and Graves, Gary R. (2010). DNA from a 100-year-old holotype confirms the validity of a potentially extinct hummingbird species. Biol. Lett. 6(1): 112-115.

Jorge L. Pérez-Emán, Jhoniel Perdigón Ferreira, Natalia Gutiérrez-Pinto, Andrés M. Cuervo, Laura N. Céspedes, Christopher C. Witt,

and Carlos Daniel Cadena. (2017). An extinct hummingbird species that never was: a cautionary tale about sampling issues in molecular phylogenetics. bioRxiv. doi: doi.org/10.1101/149898.

Jorge L. Pérez-Emán, Jhoniel Perdigón Ferreira, Natalia Gutiérrez-Pinto, Andrés M. Cuervo, Laura N. Céspedes, Christopher C. Witt, and Carlos Daniel Cadena. (2017). An extinct hummingbird species that never was: a cautionary tale about sampling issues in molecular phylogenetics. Zootaxa 4442(3): 491-497. [Abstract]

Stiles, F. Gary and Cortés-Herrera, José Oswaldo. (2015). Diagnosis and observations of a hybrid hummingbird (Metallura tyrianthina x Aglaiocercus kingi) in the Eastern Andes of Colombia. Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Ex. Fis. Nat. 39(153): 481-490.

Tobias, Joseph A., Butchart, Stuart H. M. and Collar, Nigel J. (2006). Lost and found: a gap analysis for the Neotropical avifauna. Neotropical Birding [2006]: 4-22.

Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

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