Chionomesa | |
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Sapphire-spangled emerald, (Chionomesa lactea) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Trochilini |
Genus: | Chionomesa Simon, 1921 |
Type species | |
Ornismya lactea (sapphire-spangled emerald) Lesson, R., 1832
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Species | |
2, see text |
Chionomesa is a genus of South American hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.
The genus contains two species:[1]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Glittering-throated emerald | Chionomesa fimbriata (Gmelin, JF,, 1788) Seven subspecies
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Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, the Guianas, Peru, Trinidad and Venezuela![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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Sapphire-spangled emerald | Chionomesa lactea (Lesson, R.,, 1832) Three subspecies
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Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela; as a vagrant in Argentina![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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These two species were formerly placed in the genus Amazilia. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Amazilia was polyphyletic.[2] In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, these species were moved to the resurrected genus Chionomesa that had been introduced in 1921 by the French naturalist Eugène Simon.[1][3][4] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek khiōn meaning "snow" with mesos meaning "middle".[5] The type species was designated as the sapphire-spangled emerald by the American ornithologist Charles Wallace Richmond in 1927.[6][7]