Goldenthroat

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Goldenthroat
File:Polytmus theresiae - Green-tailed Goldenthroat; Novo Airão, Amazonas, Brazil.jpg
Green-tailed goldenthroat, Polytmus theresiae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]

Genus Polytmus Brisson, 1760 – three species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
White-tailed goldenthroat

File:Polytmus guainumbi-White-tailed Goldenthroat.jpg

Polytmus guainumbi
(Pallas, 1764)

Three subspecies
  • 'P. g. guainumbi
  • P. g. andinus
  • P. g. thaumantias
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
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Tepui goldenthroat

File:Polytmus milleri White-tailed Goldenthroat; Guyana.jpg

Polytmus milleri
(Chapman, 1929)
Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela
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Green-tailed goldenthroat

File:Polytmus theresiae 42204846.jpg

Polytmus theresiae
(Da Silva Maia, 1843)

Two subspecies
  • P. t. theresiae
  • P. t. leucorrhous
Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, and possibly Ecuador
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