Jamaican mango

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Jamaican mango
Jamaican mango (Anthracothorax mango) male.jpg
At Green Castle Estate, Jamaica

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Anthracothorax
Species:
A. mango
Binomial name
Anthracothorax mango
Anthracothorax mango map.svg
Synonyms

Trochilus mango Linnaeus, 1758

The Jamaican mango (Anthracothorax mango) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is endemic to Jamaica. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and heavily degraded former forest. Although it has a limited range, it is not considered endangered, as its numbers are not decreasing.

Taxonomy[]

The Jamaican mango was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Trochilus mango.[2] Linnaeus based his description on the "Mango bird" that had been described and illustrated in 1738 by the English naturalist Eleazar Albin.[3] The Jamaican mango is now placed in the genus Anthracothorax that was introduced in 1831 by Friedrich Boie.[4][5] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Anthracothorax mango". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22687133A93141859. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22687133A93141859.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Linnaeus, Carl (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Volume 1 (10th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 121. |volume= has extra text (help)
  3. ^ Albin, Eleazar; Derham, William (1738). A Natural History of Birds : Illustrated with a Hundred and One Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from the Life. Volume 3. London: Printed for the author and sold by William Innys. p. 45, Plate 49 fig. b. |volume= has extra text (help)
  4. ^ Boie, Friedrich (1831). "Bemerkungen über Species und einige ornithologische Familien und Sippen". Isis von Oken (in German). 24. Cols 538–548 [545].
  5. ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 7 February 2021.


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