Calothorax | |
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Lucifer sheartail, Calothorax lucifer | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Mellisugini |
Genus: | Calothorax G.R. Gray, 1840 |
Type species | |
Ornisma cyanopogon[1] = Cynanthus lucifer Lesson, 1829
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Calothorax is a genus of birds in the hummingbird family Trochilidae.
The genus Calothorax was introduced in 1840 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray with the lucifer sheartail as the type species.[2][3] The name combines the Ancient Greek kalos meaning "beautiful" with thōrax meaning "breast".[4]
The genus contains two species:[5]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Beautiful sheartail | Calothorax pulcher Gould, 1859 |
southern-central Mexico.![]() |
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Lucifer sheartail | Calothorax lucifer (Swainson, 1827) |
southwestern United States, from southwest Texas, extreme southwestern New Mexico to extreme southeastern Arizona, and in central and north Mexico.![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
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