Chlorophonia
Chlorophonia | |
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Golden-browed chlorophonia (Chlorophonia callophrys) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Fringillidae |
Subfamily: | Euphoniinae |
Genus: | Chlorophonia Bonaparte, 1851 |
Type species | |
Tanagra viridis[1] = Pipra cyanea Vieillot, 1819
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Chlorophonia is a
Neotropics
. They are small, mostly bright green birds that inhabit humid forests and nearby habitats, especially in highlands.
The genus Chlorophonia was erected in 1851 by the French ornithologist
Thraupidae.[6]
Species
The genus contains ten species:[7]
Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Elegant euphonia | Chlorophonia elegantissima | Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. | |
Hispaniolan euphonia | Chlorophonia musica | Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti) | |
Puerto Rican euphonia | Chlorophonia sclateri | Puerto Rico | |
Lesser Antillean euphonia | Chlorophonia flavifrons | Lesser Antilles | |
Golden-rumped euphonia | Chlorophonia cyanocephala | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. | |
Blue-naped chlorophonia | Chlorophonia cyanea | south-eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina, the Andes from Bolivia in south to Venezuela in north, the Perijá and Santa Marta Mountains, the Venezuelan Coastal Range, and the Tepuis. | |
Chestnut-breasted chlorophonia | Chlorophonia pyrrhophrys | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. | |
Yellow-collared chlorophonia | Chlorophonia flavirostris | Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. | |
Blue-crowned chlorophonia | Chlorophonia occipitalis | El Salvador, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. | |
Golden-browed chlorophonia | Chlorophonia callophrys | Costa Rica and Panama. |
References
- ^ "Fringillidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1851). "Note sur les Tangaras, leurs affinités et descriptions d'espèce nouvelles". Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée. 2nd series (in French). 3: 137.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 74.
- ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 355.
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- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Finches, euphonias". World Bird List Version 5.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 June 2015.