Anthracothorax

Black-throated mango Anthracothorax nigricollis, copyright Dave Curtis.

Belongs within: Trochilinae.

Anthracothorax, mangos, is a genus of hummingbirds with decurved bills, mostly unfeathered tarsi, and relatively narrow tails.

<==Anthracothorax
|--+--A. viridisBKB15
| `--Eulampis Boie 1831BKB15, B94 [Eulampinae]
| |--E. holosericeusBKB15
| `--E. jugularisBKB15
`--+--+--A. dominicus (Linnaeus 1758)BKB15, U93
| `--A. mangoBKB15
`--+--A. nigricollisBKB15
`--+--A. viridigulaBKB15
`--+--A. prevostiiBKB15
`--A. veraguensisBKB15

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[B94] Bock, W. J. 1994. History and nomenclature of avian family-group names. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 222: 1–281.

[BKB15] Burleigh, J. G., R. T. Kimball & E. L. Braun. 2015. Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 53–63.

[U93] Unwin, D. M. 1993. Aves. In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 717–737. Chapman & Hall: London.

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