Sephanoides fernandensis leyboldi Gould, 1870:406
Alejandro Selkirk firecrown, Leybold's fire-crown
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Sephanoides leyboldi Gould, 1870:406
Considered an invalid subspecies by (Johow, 2007).
Conservation Status
Extinct (BirdLife International, 2020) or Invalid (synonym of the nominate) (Johow, 2007)
Last record: 1908 (BirdLife International, 2020)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Not recorded by Johow (1896), but was later recorded in 1908 (BirdLife International, 2020).
Distribution & Habitat
Alejandro Selkirk Island (=Isla Alejandro Selkirk = Isla Masafuera), Chile
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
Above: William Matthew Hart after John Gould. From Gould's "A Monograph of the Trochilidae or Family of Hummingbirds", Supplement (1880-87). Source: Wikimedia Commons.
References
Original scientific description:
Gould, John. (1870). On a supposed new Species of Humming-bird from the Juan Fernandez group of Islands. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 6: 406.
Other references:
Benstead, P., Bird, J., Butchart, S., Capper, D. and Symes, A. (2011). Species Factsheet: Sephanoides fernandensis. BirdLife International, Cambridge.
BirdLife International. (2012). Sephanoides fernandensis. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 19 August 2013.
BirdLife International. (2020). Sephanoides fernandensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T22687863A179402328. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22687863A179402328.en. Accessed on 15 April 2026.
Colwell, R. K. (1989). Hummingbirds of the Juan Fernandez Islands: natural history, evolution and population status. Ibis 131: 548-566.
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N. J., Christie, D. A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L. D. C. (2014). HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
Johow, F. (1896). Estudios sobre la fl ora de las Islas de Juan Fernandez. Imprenta Cervantes, Santiago de Chile. 287 pp. [Johow did not record this species during his investigation of the island's avifauna]
Johow, Federico. (2003). The enigma of the Juan Fernandez Firecrown from Isla Masafuera. Proceedings of the seventh Neotropical Ornithologists' Congress 7: 126.
Johow, Federico. (2007). El picaflor de la Isla de Masafuera: ¿subspecie extinta, nunca existió o mistery bird? / The Hummingbird of the Masafuera Island: extinct subspecies, never existed or Mystery Bird? Boletín Chileno de Ornitología 13: 28-41. [in Spanish]
Schuchmann, K. L. (1999). Family Trochilidae (Hummingbirds). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and Sargatal, J. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions.
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