Anthracothorax

Mangos
Black-throated mango, Anthracothorax nigricollis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Subfamily: Polytminae
Genus: Anthracothorax
F. Boie, 1831
Type species
Trochilus violicauda
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. The type species was subsequently designated as the green-throated mango (Anthracothorax viridigula). The generic name combines the Ancient Greek anthrax meaning "coal" (i.e. black) with thōrax meaning "chest".

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Anthracothorax was paraphyletic with respect to Eulampis.

Species

The genus contains eight species:

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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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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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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Veraguan mango

 Anthracothorax veraguensis
Reichenbach, 1855		 Panama, Costa Rica
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Hispaniolan mango

 Anthracothorax dominicus
(Linnaeus, 1766)		 Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti)
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Puerto Rican mango

 Anthracothorax aurulentus
(Audebert & Vieillot, 1801)		 Puerto Rico, the British Virgin Islands, and the Virgin Islands, U.S.
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Green mango

 Anthracothorax viridis
(Audebert & Vieillot, 1801)		 Puerto Rico
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Jamaican mango

 Anthracothorax mango
(Linnaeus, 1758)		 Jamaica
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References

  1. ↑ "Trochilidae". Howard & Moore Checklist Online. 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.