The
snowy-bellied hummingbird (
Saucerottia edward) is a species of
hummingbird found in Costa Rica, Panama, and far north-western Colombia. Formerly placed in the genus
Amazilia, the species was reassigned to
Saucerottia as part of the revised classification to create
monophyletic genera after a study published in 2014 found that
Amazilia was
polyphyletic. It measures approximately 10 centimetres (3.9 in) in length, with a metallic-green head and upper chest, pure-white lower chest and belly, and metallic-copper back and rump. This snowy-bellied hummingbird, of the subspecies
S. e. niveoventer, was photographed in the Mount Totumas
cloud forest in Panama.
Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp