Starthroat

Starthroat
Long-billed starthroat
(Heliomaster longirostris)
John Gould lithograph.
Scientific classification Edit this 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
Species

4, see text

The starthroats in Heliomaster is a hummingbird genus in the subfamily Trochilinae.

Species

The genus contains the following species:[2]

Genus Heliomaster – Bonaparte, 1850 – four species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Plain-capped starthroat

Heliomaster constantii
(Delattre, 1843)

Three subspecies
  • H. c. constantii
  • H. c. leocadiae
  • H. c. pinicola
western Mexico, (the Sierra Madre Occidentals), to southern Costa Rica
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Long-billed starthroat

Heliomaster longirostris
(Audebert & Vieillot, 1801)

Three subspecies
  • H. l. longirostris
  • H. l. pallidicepts
  • H. l. albicrissa'
southern Mexico to Panama, from Colombia south and east to Bolivia and Brazil, and on Trinidad
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Stripe-breasted starthroat


Male
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Female

Heliomaster squamosus
(Temminck, 1823) 		eastern and southeastern Brazil.
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Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Blue-tufted starthroat

Heliomaster furcifer
(Shaw, 1812) 		Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and possibly Ecuador.
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 




References

  1. ^ "Trochilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
  2. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 January 2020.


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