Goldenthroat

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Goldenthroat
Green-tailed goldenthroat, Polytmus theresiae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]

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

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
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Tepui goldenthroat

Polytmus milleri
(Chapman, 1929) 		Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Green-tailed goldenthroat

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
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 



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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