Anthracothorax
Mangos | |
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Black-throated mango, Anthracothorax nigricollis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Subfamily: | Polytminae |
Genus: | Anthracothorax F. Boie, 1831 |
Type species | |
Trochilus violicauda[1] Boddaert, 1783
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The mangos, Anthracothorax, are a
Neotropics
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The genus Anthracothorax was introduced by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1831.[2] The type species was subsequently designated as the green-throated mango (Anthracothorax viridigula).[3] The generic name combines the Ancient Greek anthrax meaning "coal" (i.e. black) with thōrax meaning "chest".[4]
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Species
The genus contains eight species:[7]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Green-throated mango | Anthracothorax viridigula (Boddaert, 1783) |
Venezuela, Trinidad and the Guianas south to northeastern Brazil. |
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Green-breasted mango | Anthracothorax prevostii (Lesson, 1832) |
southern Mexico south through Central America |
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Black-throated mango | Anthracothorax nigricollis (Vieillot, 1817) |
Panama south to northeastern Bolivia, southern Brazil and northern Argentina |
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Veraguan mango | Anthracothorax veraguensis Reichenbach, 1855 |
Panama, Costa Rica |
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Hispaniolan mango | Anthracothorax dominicus (Linnaeus, 1766) |
Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti) |
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Puerto Rican mango | Anthracothorax aurulentus (Audebert & Vieillot, 1801) |
Puerto Rico, the British Virgin Islands, and the Virgin Islands, U.S. |
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Green mango | Anthracothorax viridis (Audebert & Vieillot, 1801) |
Puerto Rico |
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Jamaican mango | Anthracothorax mango (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Jamaica |
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References
- ^ "Trochilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ^ Boie, Friedrich (1831). "Bemerkungen über Species und einige ornithologische Familien und Sippen". Isis von Oken (in German). 24. Cols 538–548 [545].
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 24.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- PMID 24704078.
- PMID 26249062.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Hummingbirds". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 21 July 2019.