Chlorestes

Chlorestes is a genus of hummingbirds.

Chlorestes
Blue-chinned sapphire, (Chlorestes notata)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Trochilini
Genus:	Chlorestes Reichenbach, 1854
Type species
Trochilus caeruleus[1] Vieillot, 1817
Species
5, see text

Species

The genus contains five species:^[2]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Chlorestes candida	White-bellied emerald	Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Mexico, and Nicaragua
	Chlorestes eliciae	Blue-throated sapphire	Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama
	Chlorestes cyanus	White-chinned sapphire	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela
	Chlorestes julie	Violet-bellied hummingbird	Colombia, Ecuador, Panama
	Chlorestes notata	Blue-chinned sapphire	Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela

This genus formerly included only the blue-chinned sapphire. Additional species were moved to this genus based on a molecular phylogenetic study of the hummingbirds published in 2014.^[2][3][4]