Aethopyga shelleyi

Sharpe, 1876 · species

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Animalia/Chordata/Aves/Passeriformes/Nectariniidae/Aethopyga

At a glance

Occurrence records2 336

Data sources8

Biological traits25

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections1

Sources8 archives

Databases and archives Aethopyga shelleyi's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility2 336 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

IOC World Bird ListIOCbird checklist↗

On this page5 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources25 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF2 336 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries1 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD1 specimens

01Narrative

The lovely sunbird (Aethopyga shelleyi) is a bird species in the family Nectariniidae. It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesAmnioteDBEltonTraitsAVONET

Size & morphology12

Beak depth2.6 mm

Beak length (culmen)16.1 mm

Beak length (nares)10.8 mm

Beak width3.2 mm

Body mass4.1 g

Body mass (female)4.1 g

Hand-wing index15.6

Kipp's distance7 mm

Secondary length38.2 mm

Tail length37.9 mm

Tarsus length13.4 mm

Wing length46 mm

Life cycle & reproduction2

Egg mass0.62 g

Litter size2

Diet & foraging7

Canopy30 %

Invertebrate50 %

Midhigh30 %

Nectar50 %

Trophic levelomnivore

Trophic nicheNectarivore

Understory40 %

Habitat & environment4

HabitatForest

Migration1.0

Primary lifestyleInsessorial

Range size13 152 km²

05DNA & barcoding1 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Aethopyga shelleyi has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

BINs1

Marker genes1

eDNA detections1

Countries1

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

★COI-5P

animal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type2 336 records

Wild obs. + sensor2 170

Museum / vouchered166

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO1 020 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy74% within 1 km

≤100 m 25≤1 km 9≤10 km 6>10 km 6

46 georeferenced · 2 124 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor2 170

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy6% within 1 km

≤100 m 2≤1 km 3≤10 km 68>10 km 10

83 georeferenced · 83 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence166

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions15 of 18 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
New Haven, US	59
Copenhagen, DK	19
Philadelphia, US	15
Wuzhou, CN	14
Geneva, CH	7
Cambridge, US	6
Ann Arbor, US	5
Toronto, CA	3
Honolulu, US	3
University of the Philippines Los Baños Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	3
Edmonton, CA	3
Paris, FR	2
Brussels, BE	2
Chicago, US	2
Denver, US	1
Moore Laboratory of Zoology, Occidental Collegelocation not on record	1
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record	1
Berkeley, US	1

18 institutions · 147 of 166 vouchered records shown · 19 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA1 detections

Where the DNA of Aethopyga shelleyi was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.

Signal

Detections DNA found1

Studies independent surveys1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 1 detections have coordinates

Open the map0 countries0

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.

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Aethopyga shelleyi

At a glance

Sources8 archives

Size & morphology12

Life cycle & reproduction2

Diet & foraging7

Habitat & environment4

At a glance

Record type2 336 records

Range

Wildobservation + sensor

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Wildobservation + sensor

Holding institutions15 of 18 geolocated

Signal

Where its DNA was found

How strong is each trace?

Record type2 336 records