Snowy-bellied Hummingbird (Saucerottia edward)
About the Snowy-bellied Hummingbird
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. 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)
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Listed as recorded in Panama in the xeno-canto catalogue.
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