Hylocharis | |
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Gilded sapphire (Hylocharis chrysura) photographed in São Paulo, Brazil. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Trochilini |
Genus: | Hylocharis Boie, F, 1831 |
Type species | |
Trochilus sapphirinus (rufous-throated sapphire) Gmelin, JF, 1788
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Species | |
2, see text |
Hylocharis is a genus of hummingbirds, in the family Trochilidae. It contains two species that are both found in South America.