Biology:Goldenthroat

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Short description: Genus of birds

Goldenthroat
Polytmus theresiae - Green-tailed Goldenthroat; Novo Airão, Amazonas, Brazil.jpg
Green-tailed goldenthroat, Polytmus theresiae
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Subfamily: Polytminae
Genus: Polytmus
Brisson, 1760
Type species
Trochilus thaumantias
Linnaeus, 1766

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

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]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Polytmus guainumbi-White-tailed Goldenthroat.jpg Polytmus guainumbi White-tailed goldenthroat Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
Polytmus milleri - 1820-1860 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ19100093.jpg Polytmus milleri Tepui goldenthroat Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela
Polytmus theresiae 42204846.jpg Polytmus theresiae Green-tailed goldenthroat Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, and possibly Ecuador

References

  1. Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760) (in French, Latin). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés. 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. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 57. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480068. 
  3. Jobling, J.A. (2019). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". in del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. et al.. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/polytmus. Retrieved 3 April 2019. 
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2019). "Hummingbirds". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/. Retrieved 3 April 2019. 

Wikidata ☰ Q953144 entry