Northern Emerald Toucanet

Aulacorhynchus prasinus

IUCN: Not Evaluated

Taxonomy

Order
Piciformes
Family
Ramphastidae
Genus
Aulacorhynchus
eBird Code
noremt1

Subspecies (7)

  • Aulacorhynchus prasinus caeruleogularis

    highlands of Costa Rica and western and central Panama (east to western Panamá)

  • Aulacorhynchus prasinus cognatus

    mountains of eastern Panama (Darién) and adjacent Colombia

  • Aulacorhynchus prasinus prasinus

    southeastern Mexico (Veracruz, adjacent San Luis Potosí, and Oaxaca)

  • Aulacorhynchus prasinus virescens

    southeastern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, western El Salvador, Honduras, and northern Nicaragua

  • Aulacorhynchus prasinus volcanius

    eastern El Salvador (Volcán San Miguel)

  • Aulacorhynchus prasinus wagleri

    Sierra Madre del Sur of southwestern Mexico (Guerrero and southwestern Oaxaca)

  • Aulacorhynchus prasinus warneri

    mountains of southeastern Mexico (Sierra de Los Tuxtlas in southern Veracruz)

Data Sources

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.