Chlorostilbon

Chlorostilbon
File:Blue-tailed Emerald - Ecuador S4E0715.jpg
Blue-tailed emerald
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Trochilini
Genus:	Chlorostilbon Gould, 1853
Type species
Chlorostilbon prasinus = Trochilus pucherani Gould, 1853
Species
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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. The females have whitish-grey underparts, tail-corners and post-ocular streak.

Taxonomy

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. This taxon is now considered as a subspecies of the glittering-bellied emerald Chlorostilbon lucidus pucherani.

Species

The genus contains ten species:

Genus Chlorostilbon – Gould, 1853 – ten species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Garden emerald File:Garden Emerald JCB (cropped).jpg	Chlorostilbon assimilis Lawrence, 1861	Costa Rica and Panama Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Western emerald File:ChlorostilbonMelanorhynchusAC1.jpg Male {{{image2-alt}}} Female	Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus Gould, 1860	Colombia and Ecuador. Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Red-billed emerald File:Chlorostilbon gibsoni macho (17186001392).jpg Male {{{image2-alt}}} Female	Chlorostilbon gibsoni (Fraser, 1840) Three subspecies C. g. gibsoni C. g. chrysogaster C. g. nitens	Colombia and Venezuela Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Blue-tailed emerald File:Blue-tailed Emerald - Ecuador S4E0715.jpg	Chlorostilbon mellisugus (Linnaeus, 1758) Seven subspecies C. m. caribaeus Lawrence, 1871 C. m. duidae Zimmer, JT & Phelps, 1952 C. m. subfurcatus Berlepsch, 1887 C. m. mellisugus (Linnaeus, 1758) C. m. phoeopygus (Tschudi, 1844 C. m. napensis Gould, 1861 C. m. peruanus Gould, 1861	Colombia east to the Guianas and Trinidad, and south to northern Bolivia and central Brazil Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Chiribiquete emerald	Chlorostilbon olivaresi Stiles, 1996	Colombia Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Glittering-bellied emerald File:Chlorostilbon lucidus (Shaw, 1812) 3044739427.jpg Male {{{image2-alt}}} Female	Chlorostilbon lucidus (Shaw, 1812) Three subspecies C. l. pucherani (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1848) C. l. lucidus (Shaw, 1812) C. l. berlepschi Pinto, 1938	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Coppery emerald File:Coppery Emerald.jpg	Chlorostilbon russatus (Salvin & Godman, 1881)	Colombia and Venezuela Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Narrow-tailed emerald	Chlorostilbon stenurus (Cabanis & Heine, 1860)	Colombia and Venezuela Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Green-tailed emerald File:Chlorostilbon alice Green-tailed emerald; Aragua, Venezuela.jpg	Chlorostilbon alice (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1848)	Venezuela Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Short-tailed emerald File:Chlorostilbon poortmani Esmeralda rabicorta Short-tailed Emerald (6491849779) (cropped).jpg Male {{{image2-alt}}} Female	Chlorostilbon poortmani (Bourcier, 1843) Two subspecies C. p. poortmani C. p. euchloris	Colombia and Venezuela Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

Gallery

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  Short-tailed emerald, by John Gould
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  Glittering-bellied emerald