The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·6463GenusAves446 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Chordates
  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Birds
  5. ›Swifts and Hummingbirds
  6. ›Hummingbirds
  7. ›Bee Hummingbirds, Emeralds, Mountain-gems, and Allies
  8. ›Emerald Hummingbirds and Allies
Plovercrests
Plate 1 of 1. (c) Cláudio Dias Timm, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · via iNaturalist

Plovercrests

Stephanoxis

The two plovercrests comprise the genus Stephanoxis. They were formerly considered conspecific. The SACC accepted both as distinct species in 2015. The two species are:

Continue reading on Wikipedia

2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Purple-crowned Plovercrest

speciesStephanoxis loddigesii

Green-crowned Plovercrest

speciesStephanoxis lalandi

See this branch on the Wheel of Life →
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Stephanoxis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 6463.