Jamaican mango

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.

Jamaican mango
At Green Castle Estate, Jamaica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Anthracothorax
Species:
A. mango
Binomial name
Anthracothorax mango
Synonyms

Trochilus mango Linnaeus, 1758

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. 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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