Short-tailed Emerald

SCI Name:  Chlorostilbon poortmani
Protonym:  Ornismya poortmani Rev.Zool. 6 p.2
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Chlorostilbon
Taxonomy Code:  shteme1
Type Locality:  Colombia.
Author:  Bourcier
Publish Year:  1843
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CHLOROSTILBON
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Glittering-bellied Emerald C. lucidus pucherani) Gr. χλωρος khlōros  green; στιλβων stilbōn, στιλβοντος stilbontos  shining, an epithet of the planet Mercury (cf. στιλβη stilbē  lamp); "[plate] CHLOROSTILBONA PRASINA.   ...   [text] CHLOROSTILBON PRASINUS. Brazilian Emerald.   ...   The male has the upper and under surface yellowish green, with a golden lustre on the crown of the head and the sides of the neck; wings purplish brown; tail black, glossed with steel-blue; throat brilliant grass-green" (Gould 1853); "Chlorostilbon Gould, Monogr. Trochil., pt. 5, May, 1853, pl. [14] and text [= 5, pl. 355 of volume]. Type, by monotypy, Chlorostilbon prasinus Gould, not of authors, = Trochilus pucherani Bourcier." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 36). 
Var. Chlorostilbona.     
Synon. Chloauges, Chlorestes, Chlorolampis, Chrysomirus, Colubris, Erasmia, Halia, Marsyas, Mellisuga, Merion, Panychlora, Prasitis, Riccordia, Sporadinus.

poortmani / poortmanni
"Dédié à M. Poortman, ornithologiste distingué" (Bourcier 1843); Théodore Poortman (1804-1863) French ornithologist, taxidermist (Martin Schneider in litt.) (Chlorostilbon).

SUBSPECIES

Short-tailed Emerald (euchloris)
SCI Name: Chlorostilbon poortmani euchloris
euchloris
Gr. ευχλωρος eukhlōros greenish, yellowish  < ευ eu  fine; χλωρος khlōros  light green.

Short-tailed Emerald (poortmani)
SCI Name: Chlorostilbon poortmani poortmani
poortmani / poortmanni
"Dédié à M. Poortman, ornithologiste distingué" (Bourcier 1843); Théodore Poortman (1804-1863) French ornithologist, taxidermist (Martin Schneider in litt.) (Chlorostilbon).