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Barbthroats
Band-tailed barbthroat, Threnetes ruckeri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

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The barbthroats are a genus Threnetes of South American hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.

Taxonomy

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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]

Genus Threnetes Gould, 1852 – three species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Pale-tailed barbthroat

Threnetes leucurus
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Four subspecies
Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela
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Sooty barbthroat

Threnetes niger
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Two subspecies
  • T. n. niger (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • T. n. loehkeni Grantsau, 1969
French Guiana
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Band-tailed barbthroat

Threnetes ruckeri
(Bourcier, 1847)

Three subspecies
from southeastern Guatemala and Belize to western Ecuador and western Venezuela
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The supposed "black barbthroats", described as T. grzimeki, are actually juvenile males of the rufous-breasted hermit (Glaucis hirsuta).

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