Biology:Plumeleteer

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Short description: Genus of birds

Chalybura
Chalybura urochrysia (male) taxobox.jpg
Bronze-tailed plumeleteer
(Chalybura urochrysia)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Tribe: Trochilini
Genus: Chalybura
Reichenbach, 1854
Type species
Trochilus buffonii[1]
Lesson, 1832
Species

2, see text

The plumeleteers are a genus Chalybura of Neotropical hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.

The genus contains the following species:[2]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Chalybura buffonii (Colibrí de Buffon) (9) (14420386998).jpg Chalybura buffonii White-vented plumeleteer Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela
Chalybura urochrysia (male) crop.jpg Chalybura urochrysia Bronze-tailed plumeleteer eastern Honduras to northwestern Ecuador.

References

  1. "Trochilidae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=80. 
  2. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/. Retrieved 5 January 2020. 

Wikidata ☰ Q859950 entry