Jamaican mango

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
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Jamaican mango (Anthracothorax mango) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is an endemic species of Jamaica, meaning, it is found only on the island of Jamaica and nowhere else in the world. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

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