Amethyst-throated Mountaingem

Taxonomy

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Trochilidae

Genus

Lampornis

eBird Code

amthum1

Subspecies (5)

• Lampornis amethystinus amethystinus

  mountains of eastern Mexico (southern Nuevo León and southern Tamaulipas to Veracruz and northern Oaxaca)

• Lampornis amethystinus circumventus

  southern Mexico (western Sierra de Miahuatlán, in southwestern Oaxaca)

• Lampornis amethystinus margaritae

  mountains of southwestern Mexico (Michoacán, Guerrero, and western Oaxaca)

• Lampornis amethystinus nobilis

  highlands of Honduras

• Lampornis amethystinus salvini

  highlands of southern Mexico (Chiapas) to Guatemala and El Salvador