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Anthracothorax

Mangos
Black-throated mango, Anthracothorax nigricollis
Scientific classification Edit this 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]

Species

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The genus contains eight species:[7]

Genus Anthracothorax – F. Boie, 1831 – eight species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Green-throated mango

Anthracothorax viridigula
(Boddaert, 1783) 		Venezuela, Trinidad and the Guianas south to northeastern Brazil.
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Diet: 		 LC 


Green-breasted mango

Anthracothorax prevostii
(Lesson, 1832)

Four subspecies
  • A. p. prevostii (Lesson, 1832)
  • A. p. gracilirostris Ridgway, 1910
  • A. p. hendersoni (Cory, 1887)
  • A. p. viridicordatus Cory, 1913
southern Mexico south through Central America
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Diet: 		 LC 


Black-throated mango

Anthracothorax nigricollis
(Vieillot, 1817)

Two subspecies
  • A. n. nigricollis (Vieillot, 1817)
  • A. n. iridescens (Gould, 1861)
Panama south to northeastern Bolivia, southern Brazil and northern Argentina
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Diet: 		 LC 


Veraguan mango

Anthracothorax veraguensis
Reichenbach, 1855 		Panama, Costa Rica
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Diet: 		 LC 


Hispaniolan mango

Anthracothorax dominicus
(Linnaeus, 1766) 		Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti)
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Diet: 		 LC 


Puerto Rican mango

Anthracothorax aurulentus
(Audebert & Vieillot, 1801) 		Puerto Rico, the British Virgin Islands, and the Virgin Islands, U.S.
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Diet: 		 LC 


Green mango

Anthracothorax viridis
(Audebert & Vieillot, 1801) 		Puerto Rico
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Diet: 		 LC 


Jamaican mango

Anthracothorax mango
(Linnaeus, 1758) 		Jamaica
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Diet: 		 LC 



References

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  1. ^ "Trochilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
  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. Bibcode:2014CBio...24..910M. 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.
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