The goldenthroats are a small group of hummingbirds in the genus Polytmus.
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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]
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Genus Polytmus – Brisson, 1760 – three species
| Common name |
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| White-tailed goldenthroat
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Polytmus guainumbi
(Pallas, 1764)
- 'P. g. guainumbi
- P. g. andinus
- P. g. thaumantias
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Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
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LC
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| Tepui goldenthroat
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Polytmus milleri
(Chapman, 1929) |
Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela
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LC
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| Green-tailed goldenthroat
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Polytmus theresiae
(Da Silva Maia, 1843)
- P. t. theresiae
- P. t. leucorrhous
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Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, and possibly Ecuador
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