Lophotriccus

Genus of birds

Lophotriccus
Scale-crested pygmy tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Lophotriccus
Berlepsch, 1884

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

The genus was introduced by the German ornithologist Hans von Berlepsch in 1884.[1][2] The type species was subsequently designated as a subspecies of the scale-crested pygmy tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus squamaecrista) by the English zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1884.[3][4] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek lophos meaning "crest" with trikkos which is an unidentified small bird. In ornithology triccus is used to denote a tyrant flycatcher.[5]

Species

The genus contains the following four species:[6]

Image Common Name Scientific name Distribution
Scale-crested pygmy tyrant Lophotriccus pileatus Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela
Double-banded pygmy tyrant Lophotriccus vitiosus Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, and Suriname.
Long-crested pygmy tyrant Lophotriccus eulophotes western Amazon Basin of Bolivia, Brazil and Peru.
Helmeted pygmy tyrant Lophotriccus galeatus Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

References

  1. ^ Berlepsch, Hans von (1883). "Liste des oiseaux recueillis par MM. Stolzmann et Siemiradzki dans l'Ecuadeur occidental". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (in French). 1883: 536–577 [553]. The title page gives the year as 1883 but the issue was not published until 1884.
  2. ^ Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
  3. ^ Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1884). "Aves". Zoological Record. 20: 34.
  4. ^ Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 73.
  5. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 232. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  6. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
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