Chlorostilbon
| Chlorostilbon | |
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| Cuban emerald | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Genus: | Chlorostilbon 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. The females have whitish-grey underparts, tail-corners and post-ocular streak.
Species
- Blue-tailed emerald (Chlorostilbon mellisugus)
- Canivet's emerald (Chlorostilbon (mellisugus) canivetii)
- Salvin's emerald (Chlorostilbon (mellisugus/canivetii) salvini)
- Golden-crowned emerald (Chlorostilbon (mellisugus/canivetii) auriceps)
- Cozumel emerald (Chlorostilbon (mellisugus/canivetii) forficatus)
- Garden emerald (Chlorostilbon (mellisugus) assimilis)
- Red-billed emerald (Chlorostilbon (mellisugus) gibsoni)
- Western (or West Andean) emerald (Chlorostilbon (mellisugus/gibsoni) melanorhynchus)
- Canivet's emerald (Chlorostilbon (mellisugus) canivetii)
- Chiribiquete emerald (Chlorostilbon olivaresi)
- Glittering-bellied emerald (Chlorostilbon lucidus; formerly C. aureoventris)
- Cuban emerald (Chlorostilbon ricordii)
- Brace's emerald (Chlorostilbon bracei) - extinct
- Hispaniolan emerald (Chlorostilbon swainsonii)
- Puerto Rican emerald (Chlorostilbon maugaeus)
- Coppery emerald (Chlorostilbon russatus)
- Narrow-tailed emerald (Chlorostilbon stenurus)
- Green-tailed emerald (Chlorostilbon alice)
- Short-tailed emerald (Chlorostilbon poortmani)
- Gould's (or Caribbean) emerald (Chlorostilbon elegans) - extinct
