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
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Species | |
4, see text |
The starthroats in Heliomaster is a hummingbird genus in the subfamily Trochilinae.
Species
[edit]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
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western Mexico, (the Sierra Madre Occidentals), to southern Costa Rica![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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Long-billed starthroat | Heliomaster longirostris (Audebert & Vieillot, 1801) Three subspecies
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southern Mexico to Panama, from Colombia south and east to Bolivia and Brazil, and on Trinidad![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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Stripe-breasted starthroat | Heliomaster squamosus (Temminck, 1823) |
eastern and southeastern Brazil.![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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Blue-tufted starthroat | Heliomaster furcifer (Shaw, 1812) |
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and possibly Ecuador.![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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References
[edit]- ^ "Trochilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ^ 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
[edit]Media related to Heliomaster at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Heliomaster at Wikispecies