Heliothryx

Heliothryx
Purple-crowned fairy (Heliothryx barroti)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Subfamily: Polytminae
Genus: Heliothryx
F. Boie, 1831
Type species
Trochilus auritus (black-eared fairy)
Species

2, see text

Heliothryx is a genus of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. The genus is assigned to the subfamily Polytminae which is sometimes referred to by the informal name "mangoes".

Taxonomy[edit]

The genus Heliothryx was introduced in 1831 by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie.[1] Boie did not specify the type species but this was designated as the black-eared fairy by George Robert Gray in 1840.[2][3] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek hēlios meaning "sun" with thrix meaning "hair".[4]

The genus contains the following two species:[5]

Genus Heliothryx – F. Boie, 1831 – two species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Black-eared fairy

Heliothryx auritus
(Gmelin, JF, 1788)

Three subspecies
  • H. a. auritus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) – southeast Colombia and east Ecuador through Venezuela, the Guianas and north Brazil
  • H. a. phainolaemus Gould, 1855 – north-central Brazil (south of the Amazon)
  • H. a. auriculatus (Nordmann, 1835) – east Peru to central Bolivia and central, east Brazil
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 



Purple-crowned fairy

Heliothryx barroti
(Bourcier, 1843) 		southeastern Mexico south to southwestern Ecuador.
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 



References[edit]

  1. ^ Boie, Friedrich (1831). "Bemerkungen über Species und einige ornithologische Familien und Sippen". Isis von Oken (in German). Cols 538–548 [547].
  2. ^ Gray, George Robert (1840). A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus. London: R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 14.
  3. ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 126.
  4. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 188. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  5. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 12.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 July 2022.


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