Overview
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Saw-Billed Hermit
Common Names in French:
Colibri Tacheté
Common Names in German:
Sägeschnabeleremit
Common Names in Japanese:
ノコハシハチドリ
Description
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Habitat
Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands • Maximum Elevation: 900 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Southern Atlantic Coast • Foraging Strata: Understory/undergrowth • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Medium
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 931 meters (0 to 3,054 feet).[1]
Biome: Terrestrial
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Aves
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Birds
- Subclass:
Neornithes
()
- Gadow, 1893
- Infraclass:
Neoaves
()
- Superorder:
Apodimorphae
()
- Order:
Trochiliformes
()
- Hummingbirds
- Family:
Trochilidae
()
- Subfamily:
Trochilinae
()
- Genus:
Ramphodon
()
- (Dumont, 1818)
- Specific name:
naevius
- (Dumont, 1818)
- Scientific name: - Ramphodon naevius (Dumont, 1818)
- Specific name:
naevius
- (Dumont, 1818)
- Genus:
Ramphodon
(
- Subfamily:
Trochilinae
(
- Family:
Trochilidae
(
- Order:
Trochiliformes
(
- Superorder:
Apodimorphae
(
- Infraclass:
Neoaves
(
- Subclass:
Neornithes
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 12-Jun-2005
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Ramphodon
There are approximately 1 species in this genus:
R. naevius (Saw-Billed Hermit)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- Archiv fr Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Nicolai, 1835- GER url p. 47.
- Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
- BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
- Collar, N.J. and Andrew, P. 1988. Birds to Watch. The ICBP World Checklist of Threatened Birds. ICBP Technical Publication No. 8. Page Bros. (Norwich) Ltd, Norfolk, England.
- Collar, N.J., Crosby, M.J. and Stattersfield, A.J. 1994. Birds to Watch 2. The World List of Threatened Birds BirdLife International. Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd, U.K.
- Dickinson, E.C. (Editor) (2003): The Howard and Moore Complete Check-List of the Birds of the World, edition 3rd Edition, Christopher Helm
- Lehrbuch der zoologie / von Dr. C. Claus. Marburg, N. G. Elwert, 1883. GER url p. 774.
Notes
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Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2004. Ramphodon naevius. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 4, 2006.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 09, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 09, 2008:
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3852818
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-555054
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13527601
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 555054
- IUCN ID: 19104
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 10456
Footnotes
- Mean = 646.120 meters (2,119.816 feet), Standard Deviation = 417.820 based on 8 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
