Starthroat
Appearance
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 |
Species | |
4, see text |
The starthroats in Heliomaster is a hummingbird genus in the subfamily Trochilinae.
Species
The genus contains the following species:[1]
Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Plain-capped starthroat | Heliomaster constantii | western Mexico, (the Sierra Madre Occidentals), to southern Costa Rica | |
Long-billed starthroat | Heliomaster longirostris | southern Mexico to Panama, from Colombia south and east to Bolivia and Brazil, and on Trinidad | |
Stripe-breasted starthroat | Heliomaster squamosus | eastern and southeastern Brazil. | |
Blue-tufted starthroat | Heliomaster furcifer | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and possibly Ecuador. |
References
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
External links
- Media related to Heliomaster at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Heliomaster at Wikispecies