---
title: "Surucuá-de-barriga-amarela"
description: "Trogon viridis — Aves. The green-backed trogon (Trogon viridis), also known as the Amazonian white-tailed trogon, is a bird in the trogon family Trogonidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/green-backed-trogon
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Surucuá-de-barriga-amarela

> Trogon viridis — Aves. The green-backed trogon (Trogon viridis), also known as the Amazonian white-tailed trogon, is a bird in the trogon family Trogonidae.

- Scientific name: *Trogon viridis*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta), `jungle` (Selva)
- iNaturalist observations: 2825
- Wikidata: [Q925086](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q925086)
- iNaturalist taxon: [20773](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/20773)

## Names

- en: Green-backed Trogon
- de: Weißschwanztrogon
- es: Trogón coliblanco oriental
- fr: Trogon à queue blanche
- nl: Witstaarttrogon
- pt: Surucuá-de-barriga-amarela
- pl: Trogon białosterny

## Countries with the most observations

BR (1309), EC (290), CO (231), PE (182), GF (139), TT (101), GY (46), SR (39), BO (30), VE (9)

## Summary

The green-backed trogon (Trogon viridis), also known as the Amazonian white-tailed trogon, is a bird in the trogon family Trogonidae. It is widely distributed across the Amazon rainforest with a disjunct population on the southeast coast of Brazil. As with all trogons, this species is sexually dimorphic. The male has a yellow belly without a white breastband, a blue head with a pale-blue orbital eye-ring, a blue bill, a green back and a green tail that is mostly white below. The female is duller with a dark grey head, a dark grey back and some black barring beneath the tail.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green-backed_trogon

## Photo

![Surucuá-de-barriga-amarela](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/green-backed-trogon/medium.jpg)

Photo: Soetjipto Verkuijl · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/154713209

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/green-backed-trogon?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).