Starthroat | |
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Long-billed starthroat (Heliomaster longirostris) John Gould lithograph. | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Lampornithini |
Genus: | Heliomaster Bonaparte, 1850 |
Type species | |
Ornismya angelae [1] Lesson, 1833 | |
Species | |
4, see text |
The starthroats in Heliomaster is a hummingbird genus in the subfamily Trochilinae.
The genus contains the following species: [2]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Plain-capped starthroat | Heliomaster constantii (Delattre, 1843) Three subspecies
| western Mexico, (the Sierra Madre Occidentals), to southern Costa Rica![]() | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
Long-billed starthroat | Heliomaster longirostris (Audebert & Vieillot, 1801) Three subspecies
| southern Mexico to Panama, from Colombia south and east to Bolivia and Brazil, and on Trinidad![]() | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
Stripe-breasted starthroat | Heliomaster squamosus (Temminck, 1823) | eastern and southeastern Brazil.![]() | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
Blue-tufted starthroat | Heliomaster furcifer (Shaw, 1812) | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and possibly Ecuador.![]() | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |