Species profile
Yellow-green Greenlet
Hylophilus viridiflavus
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 40132, female, collected on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus, Panama, during the ‘‘ winter’ ’ of 1860 – 1861, by James McLeannan and John R. Galbraith. From the George N. Lawrence Collection (nos. 176 and 198).
- Scientific name
- Hylophilus viridiflavus
- Family
- Vireonidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Hylophilus
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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