Silvicultrix
Silvicultrix is a genus of South American birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.
| Silvicultrix | |
|---|---|
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| Yellow-bellied chat-tyrant (Silvicultrix diadema) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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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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]
The genus contains five species:[2]
- Crowned chat-tyrant, Silvicultrix frontalis
- Kalinowski's chat-tyrant, Silvicultrix spodionota
- Golden-browed chat-tyrant Silvicultrix pulchella
- Yellow-bellied chat-tyrant Silvicultrix diadema
- Jelski's chat-tyrant Silvicultrix jelskii
These species were formerly included in the genus Ochthoeca.
References
- 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.
- 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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