''Coeligena'' is a genus of
South American
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
hummingbird
Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the Family (biology), biological family Trochilidae. With approximately 366 species and 113 genus, genera, they occur from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but most species are found in Cen ...
s.
Species
It contains the following 15 species:
References
Bird genera
Birds of the Northern Andes
Taxa named by René Lesson
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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