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Chrysuronia
Golden-tailed sapphire, (Chrysuronia oenone)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Tribe: Trochilini
Genus: Chrysuronia
Bonaparte, 1850
Type species
Ornismya oenone (golden-tailed sapphire)
Lesson, R, 1832
Species

10, see text

Chrysuronia is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae, all of which are native to Central and South America.

Taxonomy

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The genus Chrysuronia was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte.[1] Bonaparte did not specify a type species but this was designated as the golden-tailed sapphire in 1855 by George Robert Gray.[2][3] The genus name is a portmanteau of the specific names of two synonyms of the golden-tailed sapphire: Ornismya chrysura Lesson, R, 1832 and Ornismia oenone Lesson, 1832.[4]

This genus formerly included only a single species, the golden-tailed sapphire. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the genera Amazilia and Lepidopyga were polyphyletic.[5] In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, Chrysuronia was broadened to include species that had previous been placed in Amazilia, Hylocharis and Lepidopyga.[6][7]

The genus now contains ten species:[6]

Genus Chrysuronia Bonaparte, 1850 – ten species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Shining-green hummingbird


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Chrysuronia goudoti
(Bourcier, 1843)

Four subspecies
Colombia and Venezuela
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Golden-tailed sapphire


Male

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Female

Chrysuronia oenone
(Lesson, R, 1832)
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela
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Versicolored emerald


Male
Chrysuronia versicolor
(Vieillot, 1818)
northern Bolivia, eastern Paraguay, far north-eastern Argentina, and eastern, southern and central Brazil
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Mangrove hummingbird

Chrysuronia boucardi
(Mulsant, 1877)
Costa Rica.
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Sapphire-throated hummingbird


Male
Chrysuronia coeruleogularis
(Gould, 1851)

Three subspecies
  • C. c. coeruleogularis
  • C. c. coelina
  • C. c. conifis
Panama, Colombia, and more recently Costa Rica
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Sapphire-bellied hummingbird Chrysuronia lilliae
(Stone, 1917)
Colombia
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Humboldt's sapphire

Chrysuronia humboldtii
(Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852)
Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama
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Blue-headed sapphire

Chrysuronia grayi
(Delattre & Bourcier, 1846)
Colombia and Ecuador.
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White-chested emerald

Chrysuronia brevirostris
(Lesson, R, 1829)

Three subspecies
  • C. b. brevirostris
  • C. b. chionopectus
  • C. b. orienticola
Brazil, the Guianas, Trinidad, and Venezuela.
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Plain-bellied emerald

Chrysuronia leucogaster
(Gmelin, JF, 1788)

Two subspecies
  • C. l. leucogaster (Gmelin, JF, 1788)
  • C. l. bahiae (Hartert, E, 1899)
Brazil, the Guianas, and Venezuela.
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