Biology:Mionectes
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Short description: Genus of birds
| Mionectes | |
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| Streak-necked flycatcher (Mionectes striaticollis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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 |
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Streak-necked flycatcher | Mionectes striaticollis | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. |
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Olive-striped flycatcher | Mionectes galbinus | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. |
| Olive-streaked flycatcher | Mionectes olivaceus | Costa Rica and Panama. | |
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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. |
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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. | |
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Grey-hooded flycatcher | Mionectes rufiventris | Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. |
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" (in la). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 10 (1): 262–317 [275]. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9697416.
- ↑ Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 53. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14500830.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/flycatchers/.
- ↑ Hilty, S.L.; Ascanio, D. (2014). "McConnell's Flycatcher Mionectes macconnelli is more than one species". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 134 (4): 270–279. https://boc-online.org/bulletins/downloads/BBOC1344-Hilty.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q1078662 entry
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