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Lemon-chested greenlet

species of bird

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ605057 ↗
Source-derived summary

The lemon-chested greenlet (Hylophilus thoracicus) is a species of bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Taxonomy and systematics

The lemon-chested greenlet's taxonomy is unsettled. The IOC, the Clements taxonomy, AviList, and the independent South American Classification Committee assign it these three subspecies:

H. t. aemulus (Hellmayr, 1920)

H. t. griseiventris Berlepsch & Hartert, EJO, 1902

H. t. thoracicus Temminck, 1822

However, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) treats H. t. thoracicus as the Rio de Janeiro greenlet and, confusingly, the other two as the lemon-chested greenlet.

This article follows the IOC et al. one species, three-subspecies, model.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lemon-chested greenlet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.