Coppery-naped puffleg

Coppery-naped puffleg
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Eriocnemis
Species:
E. luciani
Subspecies:
E. l. sapphiropygia
Trinomial name
Eriocnemis luciani sapphiropygia
Taczanowski, 1874
Synonyms

Eriocnemis sapphiropygia

The coppery-naped puffleg (Eriocnemis luciani sapphiropygia) is a subspecies of hummingbird found in the Andes in Peru in wet montane forest edges between 2000 and 4000 m altitude. It is usually considered a subspecies of the sapphire-vented puffleg, Eriocnemis luciani.

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