Sierra de Lema flycatcher
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Tyrannidae |
| Genus: | Mionectes |
| Species: | M. roraimae
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| Mionectes roraimae (Chubb, C, 1919)
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The Sierra de Lema flycatcher or Tepui flycatcher (Mionectes roraimae) is a species of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. It is found in highland areas, including the table-top mountains (tepui), of southern Venezuela and the neighbouring parts of Brazil and Guiana. Its natural habitats are moist montane forests.
The Sierra de Lema flycatcher was described by the English ornithologist Charles Chubb in 1919 as a subspecies of the ochre-bellied flycatcher. He coined the trinomial name Pipromorpha oleaginea roraimae and specified the type location as Mount Roraima in the southeastern corner of Venezuela.[2] The specific epithet roraimae is a Latinized form of Mount Roraima.[3] It was treated as a subspecies of McConnell's flycatcher (Mionectes macconnelli) by the American ornithologist Clyde Todd in 1921.[4] It was split from the McConnell's flycatcher based on a study published in 2014 that showed that the two taxa differed in habitat choice, vocalization and display behaviour.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Sierra de Lema Flycatcher". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
- ^ Chubb, Charles (1919). "New forms of South-American birds". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 9. 4: 301-304 [303].
- ^ Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "roraimae". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
- ^ Todd, W. E. Clyde (1921). "Studies in the Tyrannidae. I. A revision of the genus Pipromorpha". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 34: 173–192.
- ^ Hilty, S.L.; Ascanio, D. (2014). "McConnell's Flycatcher Mionectes macconnelli is more than one species" (PDF). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 134 (4): 270–279.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
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