Mionectes

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Mionectes
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Streak-necked flycatcher (Mionectes striaticollis)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Mionectes
Cabanis, 1844

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]

The genus contains the following six species:[3]

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[]

  1. ^ Cabanis, Jean (1844). "Avium conspectus quae in Republica Pernana reperiuntur et pleraeqne observatae vel collectae sunt in itinere". Archiv für Naturgeschichte (in Latin). 10 (1): 262-317 [275].
  2. ^ Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 53. |volume= has extra text (help)
  3. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
  4. ^ 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.


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