Goldenthroat

{{short description|Genus of birds}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Polytmus theresiae - Green-tailed Goldenthroat; Novo Airão, Amazonas, Brazil.jpg

| image_caption = Green-tailed goldenthroat, Polytmus theresiae

| taxon = Polytmus

| authority = Brisson, 1760

| type_species = Trochilus thaumantias

| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1766

}}

The goldenthroats are a small group of hummingbirds in the genus Polytmus.

The genus Polytmus was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the type species as Polytmus guainumbi thaumantias, a subspecies of the white-tailed goldenthroat.{{ cite book | last=Brisson | first=Mathurin Jacques | author-link=Mathurin Jacques Brisson | year=1760 | title=Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés | language=French, Latin | at=[https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36010438 Vol. 1, p. 40], [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35953790 Vol. 3, p. 667] | place=Paris | publisher=Jean-Baptiste Bauche }}{{ 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=57 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480068 }} The name of the genus is from the Ancient Greek πολυτιμος polutimos "very costly", "valuable".{{cite web | last=Jobling | first=J.A. | year=2019 | title= Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/polytmus | accessdate=3 April 2019 }}

The genus contains three species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Hummingbirds | work=World Bird List Version 9.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=3 April 2019 }}

{{Species table |genus= Polytmus |authority-name=Brisson |authority-year=1760 |species-count=three|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

{{Species table/row

|name=White-tailed goldenthroat |binomial=Polytmus guainumbi

|image=File:Polytmus guainumbi-White-tailed Goldenthroat.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Pallas |authority-year=1764 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela

|range-image=File:Polytmus guainumbi map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= LC

|population=

|direction=

|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Three subspecies |bullets=on

| 'P. g. guainumbi

| P. g. andinus

| P. g. thaumantias

}}

}}

{{Species table/row

|name= Tepui goldenthroat|binomial=Polytmus milleri

|image=File:Polytmus milleri White-tailed Goldenthroat; Guyana.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Chapman |authority-year=1929 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela

|range-image=File:Polytmus milleri map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= LC

|population=

|direction=

|subspecies=

}}

{{Species table/row

|name=Green-tailed goldenthroat |binomial=Polytmus theresiae

|image=File:Polytmus theresiae 42204846.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Da Silva Maia |authority-year=1843 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, and possibly Ecuador

|range-image=File:Polytmus theresiae map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= LC

|population=

|direction=

|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Two subspecies |bullets=on

|P. t. theresiae

|P. t. leucorrhous

}}

}}

{{Species table/end}}