Phaeomyias

Phaeomyias is a genus of South American birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

Phaeomyias
Mouse-colored tyrannulet (Phaeomyias murina)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Phaeomyias
Berlepsch, 1902

The genus was erected by the German ornithologist Hans von Berlepsch in 1902.[1] The type species was subsequently designated as the mouse-colored tyrannulet (Phaeomyias murina).[2][3]

Species

The genus contains two species:[4]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Phaeomyias murinaMouse-colored tyrannuletPanama and Costa Rica
Phaeomyias tumbezanaTumbesian tyrannuletsouthwest Ecuador and northwest Peru

The Tumbesian tyrannulet was formerly considered conspecific with the widespread mouse-colored tyrannulet. The two species are visually very similar, but vocally distinct.[5]

References

  1. von Berlepsch, Hans (1902). "On the birds of the Orinoco region". Novitates Zoologicae. 9: 1–135 [41].
  2. Chubb, Charles (1921). The Birds of British Guiana. Volume 2. London: British Museum. p. 177.
  3. Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 16.
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
  5. Rheindt, Frank E.; Norman, Janette A.; Christidis, Les (2008). "Genetic differentiation across the Andes in two pan-Neotropical tyrant-flycatcher species". Emu. 108 (3): 261–268. doi:10.1071/mu08020.


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