Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Chrysolampis
- Mass
- 3.9
- Image
- Chrysolampis mosquitus - Tiergarten Schönbrunn 2.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Chrysolampis mosquitus
- taxon name
- Chrysolampis mosquitus
- Commons gallery
- Chrysolampis mosquitus
- taxon common name
- colibri-rubi
- litter size
- 2
- egg incubation period
- 15
- taxon range
- Santo Antônio de Lisboa
- short name
- C. mosquitus
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Encyclopedic overview
The ruby-topaz hummingbird (Chrysolampis mosquitus), commonly referred to simply as the ruby topaz, is a species of hummingbird in the subfamily Polytminae, the mangoes. It is found in Aruba, Bolivia, Bonaire, Brazil, Colombia, Curaçao, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ruby-topaz Hummingbird” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.