Hylocharis
Appearance
Hylocharis | |
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Gilded sapphire (Hylocharis chrysura) photographed in São Paulo, Brazil. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Trochilini |
Genus: | Hylocharis F. Boie, 1831 |
Species | |
6, see text |
Hylocharis is a genus of hummingbird, in the family Trochilidae. It contains the following species:
- Blue-headed sapphire (Hylocharis grayi)
- Blue-throated sapphire (Hylocharis eliciae)
- Flame-rumped sapphire (Hylocharis pyropygia), validity questionable
- Gilded sapphire (Hylocharis chrysura)
- Humboldt's sapphire (Hylocharis humboldtii)
- White-chinned sapphire (Hylocharis cyanus)
The rufous-throated sapphire (Amazilia sapphirina) was previously classified in Hylocharis.