The lesser violetear, also known as the mountain violet-ear, is a medium-sized, metallic green hummingbird species commonly found in forested areas from Costa Rica to northern South America. This species and the Mexican violetear were formerly considered as conspecific and named the 'green violetear'. Source: Wikipedia
Citación:
(Bourcier, J 1843)
Referencia:
Rev. Zool. Soc. Cuvierienne
6 p.101
Protónimo:
Trochilus cyanotus
localidad tipo:
Caracas, Venezuela.
Enlace:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19446#page/109/mode/1up
Avibase ID:
94CB63F7A26DE616
Avibase ID:
avibase-94CB63F7
Enlace corto:
https://avibase.ca/94CB63F7
Número de serie taxonómico:
TSN: 693506
Rango geográfico:
Autoridades que reconocen el concepto taxonómico:
| American Ornithologists' Union 7th edition (incl. 57th suppl.): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 58th suppl.): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 59th suppl.): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 60th suppl.): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 61st suppl.): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 61st suppl. and addendum): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 62nd suppl.): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 63rd suppl.): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 64th suppl.): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 65th suppl.): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 66th suppl.): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Lesser Violet-ear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Lesser Violet-ear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Lesser Violet-ear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2025 (Nov 2025): Lesser Violet-ear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Lesser Violet-ear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Lesser Violet-ear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Lesser Violet-ear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Lesser Violet-ear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Lesser Violet-ear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Avilist 2025: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2021: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2022: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2023: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2024: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2025: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2016: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2017: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2018: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2019: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2016: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2017: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2018: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2019: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2021: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2022: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2023: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2024: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2025: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.3: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.4: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 7.1: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 7.2: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 7.3: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 8.1: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 8.2: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 9.1: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 9.2: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 10.1: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 10.2: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 11.1: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 11.2: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 12.1: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 12.2: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 13.1: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 13.2: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 14.1: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 14.2: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 15.1: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 15.2: Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (6/06/2019): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) |
| South American Classification Committee (20/02/2020): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) |
| South American Classification Committee (8/06/2020): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) |
| South American Classification Committee (24/08/2021): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) |
| South American Classification Committee (24/07/2022): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) |
| South American Classification Committee (28/09/2023): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) |
| South American Classification Committee (27/07/2024): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) |
| South American Classification Committee (31/07/2025): Lesser Violetear ( Colibri cyanotus) |
Situación Taxonómica:
Estatus de la especie: full species (sometimes a subspecies)
Este taxón está considerado como una subespecie de
Colibri [thalassinus or cyanotus]
(sensu lato) por algunos autores
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Otros sinónimos
Consulte también la tabla sinónimos taxonómicos.
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