Green-throated Mango

Green-throated Mango / Anthracothorax viridigula

Green-throated Mango

Here the details of the Green-throated Mango named bird below:

SCI Name:  Anthracothorax viridigula
Protonym:  Trochilus viridigula TablePlanchesEnlum. p.41
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae /
Taxonomy Code:  grtman1
Type Locality:  Cayenne, based on Daubenton, PI. enlum, pi. 671, f. 1
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Publish Year:  1783
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

ANTHRACOTHORAX
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Green-throated Mango A. viridigula) Gr. ανθραξ anthrax, ανθρακος anthrakos  coal, carbuncle (i.e. black); θωραξ thōrax, θωρακος thōrakos  chest; "Anthracothorax.  a. weder Holle noch Abzeichen.  b. untere Theile des Körpers sammetschwarz.  c. Schnabel lang und gebogen.  d. Schwanz kupferviolet und  e. abgerundet.    Arten.  1. Troch. mango.   2. — holosericeus Gm.   3. — violaceus Gm.   4. — gramineus Gm." (Boie 1831); "Anthracothorax Boie, Isis von Oken, 1831, col. 545. Type, by subsequent designation, Trochilus violicauda Boddaert [♀] = Trochilus gramineus Gmelin [= Trochilus viridigula Boddaert [imm.♂]]. (Elliot, Classif. Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 37.)" (Peters, 1945, V, p. 24).   
Var. Anthrocorax.   
Synon. Colubris, Endoxa, Floresia, Hypophania, Lampornis, Margarochrysis, Smaragdites.

viridigula
L. viridis  green  < virere  to be green; gula  throat.
● ex “Colibri à gorge verte de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 671, fig. 1 (Anthracothorax).