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Familia: Trochilidae
Subfamilia: Trochilinae
Genus: Polytmus
Species: P. guainumbi - P. milleri - P. theresiae
Name

Polytmus Brisson, 1760

Typus: Trochilus guainumbi Pallas, 1764 = Polytmus guainumbi

Synonyms

Smaragdites Boie, 1831 Isis (Oken) col. 547 BHL
Thaumatias Bonaparte, 1850 Consp.Gen.Avium p. 78 BHL
Thaumantias Bonaparte, 1854 (emend.) Rev.Mag.Zool p. 255 BHL
Psilomycter Hartert, 1899 Orn.Monastb. p. 160 BHL
Waldronia Chapman, 1929 Am.Mus.Novit. p. 14

References

Brisson, M.J. 1760. Ornithologie ou méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés. A laquelle on a joint une description exacte de chaque espece, avec les citations des auteurs qui en ont traité, les noms qu'ils leur ont donnés, ceux que leur ont donnés les différentes nations, & les noms vulgaires. Ouvrage enrichi de figures en taille-douce. Tome I. - pp. j-xxiv [= 1-24], 1-526, j-lxxiij [= 1-73], Pl. I-XXXVII [= 1-37]. Paris. (Bauche). p. 40 BHL Reference page. Tome 3 p. 667


The goldenthroats are a small group of hummingbirds in the genus Polytmus.

The genus Polytmus was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the type species as Polytmus guainumbi thaumantias, a subspecies of the white-tailed goldenthroat.[1][2] The name of the genus is from the Ancient Greek πολυτιμος polutimos "very costly", "valuable".[3]

The genus contains three species:[4]

Genus Polytmus – Brisson, 1760 – three species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
White-tailed goldenthroat

Polytmus guainumbi
(Pallas, 1764)

Three subspecies
  • 'P. g. guainumbi
  • P. g. andinus
  • P. g. thaumantias
 Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
Map of range		 Size:

Habitat:

Diet:		 LC
Tepui goldenthroat

Polytmus milleri
(Chapman, 1929)		 Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela
Map of range		 Size:

Habitat:

Diet:		  LC 


Green-tailed goldenthroat

Polytmus theresiae
(Da Silva Maia, 1843)

Two subspecies
  • P. t. theresiae
  • P. t. leucorrhous
 Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, and possibly Ecuador
Map of range		 Size:

Habitat:

Diet:		 LC

References

Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés (in French and Latin). Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. Vol. 1, p. 40, Vol. 3, p. 667.
Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 57.
Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Hummingbirds". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 April 2019.

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