Green-breasted Mango (Anthracothorax prevostii) [XC795748]
by Andrew Spencer from Parque Nacional Manglares de Old Point, San Andr\u00e9s, San Andr\u00e9s y Providencia, Colombia (call)
Green-breasted Mango (Anthracothorax prevostii) [XC166431]
by Oliver Komar from Rancho Naturalista, Costa Rica (call)
Subspecies
Anthracothorax prevostii (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Green-breasted Mango (Anthracothorax prevostii) and Veraguas Mango (Anthracothorax veraguensis) following AOU (1998).
Forms superspecies with Black-throated Mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis) and Veraguas Mango (Anthracothorax veraguensis), and probably also Green-throated Mango (Anthracothorax viridigula). Very closely related to Black-throated Mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis), and occasionally regarded as conspecific, the two evidently replacing each other geographically, with at most very local sympatry in northern Venezuela, south-western Colombia and perhaps elsewhere. Often considered conspecific with Veraguas Mango (Anthracothorax veraguensis). Subspecies iridescens has alternatively been treated as a subspecies of Black-throated Mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis), or a full species.
Proposed subspecies nigrilineatus of Bay Is (Honduras) now held to be inseparable from gracilirostris and proposed pinchoti of San Andrés I generally regarded as inseparable from hendersoni.
The following 5 subspecies are recognised:
prevostii (Lesson, 1832) - Eastern and southern Mexico south to Guatemala, Belize and (possibly migrants) El Salvador.
gracilirostris Ridgway, 1910 - El Salvador and Honduras south to central Costa Rica.
hendersoni (Cory, 1887) - San Andrés I and Providencia I in western Caribbean.
viridicordatus Cory, 1913 - Extreme north-eastern Colombia (Guajira Peninsula) and coastal slope of northern Venezuela.
iridescens (Gould, 1861) - Arid upper Cauca Valley (western Colombia), and coastal slope of south-western Ecuador and extreme north-western Peru.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet