Silvicultrix

Genus of birds

Silvicultrix
Yellow-bellied chat-tyrant
(Silvicultrix diadema)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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 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

The genus contains five species:[2]

Image Common Name Scientific name Distribution
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

  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. hdl:2246/3581.
  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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Taxon identifiers
Silvicultrix


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