Chlorophonia
The genus "Chlorophonia" was erected in 1851 by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The name combines the Ancient Greek "khlōros" meaning "green" with the genus name "Euphonia" that had been introduced in 1806 by the French zoologist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest. The type species was designated as the blue-naped chlorophonia ("Chlorophonia cyaneaby") by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855. The genus was once considered as a member of the tanager family, Thraupidae. Species. The genus contains eight species: