Anthracothorax

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Mangos
Anthracothorax nigricollis 1152.jpg
Black-throated mango, Anthracothorax nigricollis
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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 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]

Species

The genus contains eight species: [7]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Flickr - Rainbirder - Green-throated Mango (Anthracothorax viridigula).jpg Anthracothorax viridigula Green-throated mango Venezuela, Trinidad and the Guianas south to northeastern Brazil.
Anthracothorax prevostii Mango Pechiverde Green-breasted Mango (15539256092).jpg Anthracothorax prevostii Green-breasted mango southern Mexico south through Central America
Anthracothorax nigricollis (Mango pechinegro) - Macho (16247043591).jpg Anthracothorax nigricollis Black-throated mango Panama south to northeastern Bolivia, southern Brazil and northern Argentina
Veraguan Mango.jpg Anthracothorax veraguensis Veraguan mango Panama, Costa Rica
Antillean Mango 2017-12-15.jpg Anthracothorax dominicus Hispaniolan mango Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti)
Green-breasted Mango (Anthracothorax prevostii)RWD.jpg Anthracothorax aurulentus Puerto Rican mango Puerto Rico, the British Virgin Islands, and the Virgin Islands, U.S..
Zumbador verde kolibrik hummingbird.jpg Anthracothorax viridis Green mango Puerto Rico
Jamaican mango (Anthracothorax mango) male.jpg Anthracothorax mango Jamaican mango Jamaica

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References

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  2. Boie, Friedrich (1831). "Bemerkungen über Species und einige ornithologische Familien und Sippen". Isis von Oken (in German). 24. Cols 538–548 [545].
  3. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 24.
  4. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p.  49. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  5. McGuire, J.; Witt, C.; Remsen, J.V.; Corl, A.; Rabosky, D.; Altshuler, D.; Dudley, R. (2014). "Molecular phylogenetics and the diversification of hummingbirds". Current Biology. 24 (8): 910–916. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.016 . PMID   24704078.
  6. Remsen, J.V.J.; Stiles, F.G.; Mcguire, J.A. (2015). "Classification of the Polytminae (Aves: Trochilidae)". Zootaxa. 3957 (1): 143–150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.13. PMID   26249062.
  7. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Hummingbirds". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 21 July 2019.