Calothorax
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Calothorax
| image = Calothorax lucifer 1841.jpg
| image_caption = Lucifer sheartail, Calothorax lucifer
| taxon = Calothorax
| authority = G.R. Gray, 1840
| type_species = Ornisma cyanopogon{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=80 |title= Trochilidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-08-05}} = Cynanthus lucifer
| type_species_authority = Lesson, 1829
}}
Calothorax is a genus of birds in the hummingbird family Trochilidae.
Taxonomy
The genus Calothorax was introduced in 1840 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray with the lucifer sheartail as the type species.{{ cite book | last=Gray | first=George Robert | author-link=George Robert Gray | year=1840 | title=A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus | location=London | publisher=R. and J.E. Taylor | page=13 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13668907 }}{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1945 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=5 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=134 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480145 }} The name combines the Ancient Greek kalos meaning "beautiful" with thōrax meaning "breast".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=86 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n86/mode/1up }}
{{Species table |genus=Calothorax |authority-name=G.R. Gray |authority-year=1840 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
{{Species table/row
|name=Beautiful sheartail |binomial=Calothorax pulcher
|image=File:Calothorax pulcher 2115119.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Gould |authority-year=1859 |authority-not-original=
|range= southern-central Mexico.
|range-image=File:Calothorax pulcher map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat=
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
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{{Species table/row
|name=Lucifer sheartail |binomial=Calothorax lucifer
|image=File:Lucifer Hummingbird - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male
|image2 =File:Lucifer Hummingbird (female).jpg|image2-caption=Female
|authority-name=Swainson |authority-year=1827 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= southwestern United States, from southwest Texas, extreme southwestern New Mexico to extreme southeastern Arizona, and in central and north Mexico.
|range-image=File:Calothorax lucifer map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat=
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
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}}
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References
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Category:Taxa named by George Robert Gray
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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