Biology:Goldenthroat
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Short description: Genus of birds
| Goldenthroat | |
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| Green-tailed goldenthroat, Polytmus theresiae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Subfamily: | Polytminae |
| Genus: | Polytmus Brisson, 1760 |
| Type species | |
| Trochilus thaumantias Linnaeus, 1766
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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 |
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Polytmus guainumbi | White-tailed goldenthroat | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela |
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Polytmus milleri | Tepui goldenthroat | Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela |
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Polytmus theresiae | Green-tailed goldenthroat | Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, and possibly Ecuador |
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
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