Mionectes
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| Mionectes | |
|---|---|
| File:Mionectes striaticollis -NBII Image Gallery-a00255.jpg | |
| Streak-necked flycatcher (Mionectes striaticollis) | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Tyrannidae |
| Genus: | Mionectes Cabanis, 1844 |
| Type species | |
| Mionectes striaticollis | |
Mionectes is a genus of birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. The genus was erected in 1844 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis with the streak-necked flycatcher (Mionectes striaticollis) as the type species.[1][2]
Species
The genus contains the following seven species:[3]
| Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| File:Mionectes striaticollis -NBII Image Gallery-a00255.jpg | Streak-necked flycatcher | Mionectes striaticollis | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. |
| File:Olive-striped Flycatcher - Atrapamoscas Frutero Rayado (Mionectes olivaceus venezuelensis) (15861199897) (2).jpg | Olive-striped flycatcher | Mionectes galbinus | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. |
| File:Mionectes olivaceus Olive-streaked Flycatcher; Antón, Coclé, Panamá.jpg | Olive-streaked flycatcher | Mionectes olivaceus | Costa Rica and Panama. |
| File:Mionectes oleagineus 2.jpg | Ochre-bellied flycatcher | Mionectes oleagineus | southern Mexico through Central America, and South America east of the Andes as far as southern Brazil, and on Trinidad and Tobago. |
| File:Mionectes macconnelli - McConnell's Flycatcher, Presidente Figueiredo, Amazonas, Brazil.jpg | McConnell's flycatcher | Mionectes macconnelli | Guiana Shield, northern Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. |
| Sierra de Lema flycatcher | Mionectes roraimae | southern Venezuela and the neighbouring parts of Brazil and Guiana. | |
| File:Mionectes rufiventris.jpg | Grey-hooded flycatcher | Mionectes rufiventris | Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. |
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The Tepui flycatcher was formerly considered conspecific with McConnell's flycatcher. The two species have similar plumage but differ in their vocalisation and display behaviour.[4]
References
- ↑ Cabanis, Jean (1844). "Avium conspectus quae in Republica Pernana reperiuntur et pleraeqne observatae vel collectae sunt in itinere". Archiv für Naturgeschichte (in Latina). 10 (1): 262–317 [275].
- ↑ Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 53.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
- ↑ Hilty, S.L.; Ascanio, D. (2014). "McConnell's Flycatcher Mionectes macconnelli is more than one species" (PDF). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 134 (4): 270–279.
