Short-tailed emerald

Short-tailed emerald
Male in Arcabuco, Boyacá, Colombia
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Chlorostilbon
Species:
C. poortmani
Binomial name
Chlorostilbon poortmani
(Bourcier, 1843)

The short-tailed emerald (Chlorostilbon poortmani) is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.[3][4] It has also been called Poortman's emerald hummingbird.[5]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Short-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon poortmani". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T61197713A95165934. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T61197713A95165934.en. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P., eds. (January 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List. v 12.1. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  4. ^ HBW and BirdLife International (2020) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world Version 5. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip [.xls zipped 1 MB] retrieved 27 May 2021
  5. ^ Gould, John, A Monograph of the Trochilidae or Humming Birds with 360 plates (5 volumes, 1849–1861); 'Poortman's Emerald Hummingbird' is Plate 358 in volume 5 (1861) but the lithograph was published in 1860