Snowy-bellied hummingbird
species of bird
The snowy-bellied hummingbird (Saucerottia edward), also known as snowy-breasted hummingbird, is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is found in mostly in Costa Rica and Panama with a few records in Colombia.
Taxonomy and systematics
The snowy-bellied hummingbird was formerly placed in the genus Amazilia. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the genus Amazilia was polyphyletic. In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, the snowy-bellied hummingbird was moved by most taxonomic systems to the resurrected genus Saucerottia. However, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World retains it in Amazilia.
The snowy-bellied hummingbird has these four subspecies:
S. e. niveoventer (Gould, 1851)
S. e. edward (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846)
S. e. collata (Wetmore, 1952)
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