Silvicultrix
Appearance
Silvicultrix | |
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Yellow-bellied chat-tyrant (Silvicultrix diadema) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Tyrannidae |
Genus: | Silvicultrix Lanyon, W, 1986 |
Type species | |
Myiobius diadema Hartlaub, 1843
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Species | |
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Silvicultrix is a genus of South American birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.
The genus was erected by the American ornithologist Wesley E. Lanyon in 1986 with the yellow-bellied chat-tyrant (Silvicultrix diadema) as the type species.[1]
Species
[edit]The genus contains five species:[2]
Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Crowned chat-tyrant | Silvicultrix frontalis | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. | |
Kalinowski's chat-tyrant | Silvicultrix spodionota | Bolivia and Peru | |
Golden-browed chat-tyrant | Silvicultrix pulchella | Yungas of Peru and Bolivia. | |
Yellow-bellied chat-tyrant | Silvicultrix diadema | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. | |
Jelski's chat-tyrant | Silvicultrix jelskii | Peru and southern Ecuador. |
These species were formerly included in the genus Ochthoeca.
References
[edit]- ^ Lanyon, Wesley E. (1986). A phylogeny of the thirty-three genera in the Empidonax assemblage of tyrant flycatchers. American Museum Novitates; Number 2846. New York, USA: American Museum of Natural History. pp. 27–28. hdl:2246/3581.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 12 January 2018.