Biology:Chlorostilbon
| Chlorostilbon | |
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| Blue-tailed emerald | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Tribe: | Trochilini |
| Genus: | Chlorostilbon Gould, 1853 |
| Type species | |
| Chlorostilbon prasinus[1] = Trochilus pucherani Gould, 1853
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Chlorostilbon is a genus of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae, known as emeralds (as are some hummingbirds in the genera Amazilia and Elvira). A single species, the blue-chinned sapphire is variously placed in the monotypic genus Chlorestes or in Chlorostilbon. The taxonomy of the C. mellisugus superspecies is highly complex and, depending on view, includes 1-8 species. All species in this genus have straight black or black-and-red bills. The males are overall iridescent green, golden-green or bluish-green, and in some species the tail and/or throat is blue.[2] The females have whitish-grey underparts, tail-corners and post-ocular streak.
The genus Chlorostilbon was introduced in 1853 by the English ornithologist John Gould to accommodate a single species to which Gould gave the binomial name Chlorostilbon prasinus.[3] This taxon is now considered as a subspecies of the glittering-bellied emerald Chlorostilbon lucidus pucherani.[4][5][6]
Species
The genus contains ten species:[6]
- Garden emerald (Chlorostilbon assimilis)
- Western emerald (Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus)
- Red-billed emerald (Chlorostilbon gibsoni)
- Blue-tailed emerald (Chlorostilbon mellisugus)
- Chiribiquete emerald (Chlorostilbon olivaresi)
- Glittering-bellied emerald (Chlorostilbon lucidus; formerly C. aureoventris)
- Coppery emerald (Chlorostilbon russatus)
- Narrow-tailed emerald (Chlorostilbon stenurus)
- Green-tailed emerald (Chlorostilbon alice)
- Short-tailed emerald (Chlorostilbon poortmani)
Gallery
Short-tailed emerald, by John Gould
References
- ↑ "Trochilidae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=80.
- ↑ Stiles, F. Gary (1996). "A New Species of Emerald Hummingbird (Trochilidae, Chlorostilbon) from the Sierra de Chiribiquete, Southeastern Colombia, with a Review of the C. mellisugus Complex". The Wilson Bulletin 108 (1): 1–27. ISSN 0043-5643. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4163634.
- ↑ Gould, John (1853). A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds. 5. London: self. Plate 355 and text (Part 5 Plate 14). https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34998935. The 5 volumes were issued in 25 parts between 1849 and 1861. Title pages of all volumes bear the date of 1861.
- ↑ Peters, James Lee, ed (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 36. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480047.
- ↑ The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. 2013. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-9568611-0-8.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (January 2023). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/.
Wikidata ☰ Q860944 entry
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