Goldenthroat

The goldenthroats are a small group of hummingbirds in the genus Polytmus.

Goldenthroat
White-tailed goldenthroat, Polytmus guainumbi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Subfamily: Polytminae
Genus: Polytmus
Brisson, 1760
Type species
Trochilus thaumantias
Linnaeus, 1766

The genus Polytmus was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the type species as Polytmus guainumbi thaumantias, a subspecies of the white-tailed goldenthroat.[1][2] The name of the genus is from the Ancient Greek πολυτιμος polutimos "very costly", "valuable".[3]

The genus contains three species:[4]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Polytmus guainumbiWhite-tailed goldenthroatArgentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
Polytmus milleriTepui goldenthroatBrazil, Guyana, and Venezuela
Polytmus theresiaeGreen-tailed goldenthroatBrazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, and possibly Ecuador

References

  1. Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés (in French and Latin). Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. Vol. 1, p. 40, Vol. 3, p. 667.
  2. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 57.
  3. Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Hummingbirds". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 April 2019.


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