Chlorestes | |
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Blue-chinned sapphire, (Chlorestes notata) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Trochilini |
Genus: | Chlorestes Reichenbach, 1854 |
Type species | |
Trochilus caeruleus[1] Vieillot, 1817
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Species | |
5, see text |
Chlorestes is a genus of hummingbirds.
The genus contains five species:[2]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Chlorestes candida | White-bellied emerald | Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Mexico, and Nicaragua |
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Chlorestes eliciae | Blue-throated sapphire | Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama |
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Chlorestes cyanus | White-chinned sapphire | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela |
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Chlorestes julie | Violet-bellied hummingbird | Colombia, Ecuador, Panama |
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Chlorestes notata | Blue-chinned sapphire | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela |
This genus formerly included only the blue-chinned sapphire. Additional species were moved to this genus based on a molecular phylogenetic study of the hummingbirds published in 2014.[2][3][4]