Barbthroat

Barbthroats
	Band-tailed barbthroat, Threnetes ruckeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Subfamily:	Phaethornithinae
Genus:	Threnetes; Gould, 1852
Species
	2-4, see text

The barbthroats are a group of hummingbirds in the genus Threnetes. It contains the following species:

Name	Subspecies	Common name	Distribution
Threnetes leucurus		Pale-tailed barbthroat	Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela
Threnetes niger	Bronze-tailed barbthroat, T. (n.) loehkeni Christina's barbthroat, T. (n./l.) christinae (doubtfully distinct from loehkeni) Freire's sooty barbthroat, T. (n./l.) freirei	Sooty barbthroat	French Guiana
Threnetes ruckeri	T. r. venezuelensis	Band-tailed barbthroat	from southeastern Guatemala and Belize to western Ecuador and western Venezuela

The supposed "black barbthroats", described as T. grzimeki, are actually juvenile males of the rufous-breasted hermit (Glaucis hirsuta).

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