Mistletoe tyrannulet

Mistletoe tyrannulet
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Tyrannidae
Genus:Zimmerius
Species: Z. parvus
Binomial name
Zimmerius parvus
(Lawrence, 1862)

The mistletoe tyrannulet (Zimmerius parvus) is a very small passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. Its range is from Honduras to the extreme northwest of Colombia.

The mistletoe tyrannulet was described in 1862 by the American amateur ornithologist George Newbold Lawrence under the binomial name Tyranniscus parvus.[2] It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the paltry tyrannulet (Zimmerius vilissimus), but the species were split based on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2017). "Zimmerius parvus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  2. ↑ Lawrence, George Newbold (1862). "Description of six new species of birds from the Isthmus of Panama". Ibis. 4: 10–12 [12].
  3. ↑ Rheindt, F.E.; Cuervo, A.M.; Brumfield, R.T. (2013). "Rampant polyphyly indicates cryptic diversity in a clade of Neotropical flycatchers (Aves: Tyrannidae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 108 (4): 889–900. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.02036.
  4. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
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