Chlorophonia
Genus of birds
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Taxonomy
The genus Chlorophonia was erected in 1851 by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The name combines the Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós), meaning "green", with the genus name Euphonia that had been introduced in 1806 by the French zoologist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest. The type species was designated as the blue-naped chlorophonia (Chlorophonia cyanea) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855. The genus was once considered as a member of the tanager family, Thraupidae.
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Species
The genus contains ten species:
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