| Barbthroats | |
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| Band-tailed barbthroat, Threnetes ruckeri | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Subfamily: | Phaethornithinae |
| Genus: | Threnetes Gould, 1852 |
| Type species | |
| Trochilus leucurus Linnaeus, 1766
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The barbthroats are a genus Threnetes of South American hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.