Starthroat

Starthroat
File:Heliomaster longirostris - Gould.jpg
Long-billed starthroat (Heliomaster longirostris) John Gould lithograph.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Lampornithini
Genus:	Heliomaster Bonaparte, 1850
Type species
Ornismya angelae Lesson, 1833
Species
4, see text

The starthroats in Heliomaster is a hummingbird genus in the subfamily Trochilinae.

Species

The genus contains the following species:

Genus Heliomaster – Bonaparte, 1850 – four species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Plain-capped starthroat File:Heliomaster constantii 94538469.jpg	Heliomaster constantii (Delattre, 1843) Three subspecies H. c. constantii H. c. leocadiae H. c. pinicola	western Mexico, (the Sierra Madre Occidentals), to southern Costa Rica Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Long-billed starthroat File:Heliomaster longirostrus (Picudo coronado) (16210613889).jpg	Heliomaster longirostris (Audebert & Vieillot, 1801) Three subspecies H. l. longirostris H. l. pallidiceps H. l. albicrissa	southern Mexico to Panama, from Colombia south and east to Bolivia and Brazil, and on Trinidad Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Stripe-breasted starthroat File:Heliomaster squamosus Stripe-breasted Starthroat (M) 01.jpg Male {{{image2-alt}}} Female	Heliomaster squamosus (Temminck, 1823)	eastern and southeastern Brazil. Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Blue-tufted starthroat File:Picalfor de barbijo (macho).jpg	Heliomaster furcifer (Shaw, 1812)	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and possibly Ecuador. Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

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