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Threnetes

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

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. OrderApodiformes
  5. FamilyTrochilidae
Observations recorded29,426

Бородатые колибри (лат. Threnetes) — род птиц семейства колибри.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
5
Family
Trochilidae
Collections
USNM, INMA
Recorded in
Brazil, Brasil

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
hermits
Image
Thenetes leucurus Pale-tailed Barbthroat; Santa Bárbara do Pará, Pará, Brazil (cropped).jpg
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taxon rank
genus
Commons category
Threnetes
taxon name
Threnetes
topic's main category
Category:Threnetes
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The barbthroats are a genus Threnetes of South American hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.

==Taxonomy== The genus Threnetes was introduced in 1852 by the English ornithologist John Gould. The name is from the Ancient Greek thrēnētēs meaning "mourner". The type species is the pale-tailed barbthroat. The genus contains three species.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Threnetes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.