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 |
The mangos, Anthracothorax, are a non-migratory genus of hummingbirds in the subfamily Trochilinae native to the Neotropics.
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]
A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Anthracothorax was paraphyletic with respect to Eulampis . [5] [6]
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. | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
Green-breasted mango | Anthracothorax prevostii (Lesson, 1832) | southern Mexico south through Central America | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
Black-throated mango | Anthracothorax nigricollis (Vieillot, 1817) | Panama south to northeastern Bolivia, southern Brazil and northern Argentina | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
Veraguan mango | Anthracothorax veraguensis Reichenbach, 1855 | Panama, Costa Rica | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
Hispaniolan mango | Anthracothorax dominicus (Linnaeus, 1766) | Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti) | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
Puerto Rican mango | Anthracothorax aurulentus (Audebert & Vieillot, 1801) | Puerto Rico, the British Virgin Islands, and the Virgin Islands, U.S. | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
Green mango | Anthracothorax viridis (Audebert & Vieillot, 1801) | Puerto Rico | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
Jamaican mango | Anthracothorax mango (Linnaeus, 1758) | Jamaica | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
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