| Barbthroats | |
|---|---|
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| Band-tailed barbthroat, Threnetes ruckeri | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Subfamily: | Phaethornithinae |
| Genus: | Threnetes Gould, 1852 |
| Type species | |
| Trochilus leucurus Linnaeus, 1766 | |
| Species | |
See text | |
The barbthroats are a genus Threnetes of South American hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.
The genus Threnetes was introduced in 1852 by the English ornithologist John Gould. [1] The name is from the Ancient Greek thrēnētēs meaning "mourner". [2] The type species is the pale-tailed barbthroat. [3] The genus contains three species. [4]
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pale-tailed barbthroat | Threnetes leucurus (Linnaeus, 1766) | Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
| Sooty barbthroat | Threnetes niger (Linnaeus, 1758) Two subspecies
| French Guiana | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
| Band-tailed barbthroat | Threnetes ruckeri (Bourcier, 1847) Three subspecies
| from southeastern Guatemala and Belize to western Ecuador and western Venezuela | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
The supposed "black barbthroats", described as T. grzimeki, are actually juvenile males of the rufous-breasted hermit (Glaucis hirsuta).
John Gould was an English ornithologist who published monographs on birds, illustrated by plates produced by his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists, including Edward Lear, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Matthew Hart. Because of his 1840s seven-volume series The Birds of Australia and its updates he has been considered the father of bird study in Australia, and the Gould League in Australia is named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin's finches" played a role in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Gould's work is referenced in Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species.
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