Appearance
Like other toucans, the white-throated toucanet is brightly marked and has a large bill. The adult is 30–35 cm long and weight can range from 118–230 g ....hieroglyph snipped... The sexes are alike in appearance, although the female generally is smaller and slightly shorter-billed. It is, as other members of the genus ''Aulacorhynchus'', mainly green. The vent and tail-tip are rufous. The bill is black with yellow to the upper mandible and a white band at the base of the bill. Some white-throated toucanets have a rufous patch near the base of the lower mandible. The throat of the Santa Marta toucanet is pale grey-blue and white or grey-blue in the other subspecies. The eye-ring is very dark, almost appearing blackish from a distance. The legs are dull greyish and the iris is dark.Naming
Four subspecies are recognized:⤷ Santa Marta toucanet - Bangs, 1898: Originally described as a separate species. Found in the Santa Marta mountains of northern Colombia
⤷ Grey-throated toucanet - Chapman, 1915: Originally described as a separate species. Found in northern western Andes and western slope of central Andes
⤷ - Gould, 1874: Originally described as a separate species. Found on western slope of western Andes
⤷ - : Found on eastern slope of Central Andes, Eastern Andes , western Venezuela, eastern Ecuador
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