Silvicultrix

Silvicultrix
Yellow-bellied chat-tyrant
(Silvicultrix diadema)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Tyrannidae
Genus:Silvicultrix
Lanyon, W, 1986
Type species
Myiobius diadema
Hartlaub, 1843
Species

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Silvicultrix is a genus of passerine birds in the 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]

The genus contains five species:[2]

These species were formerly included in the genus Ochthoeca.

References

  1. 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.
  2. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
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