Bahia Tyrannulet

Here the details of the Bahia Tyrannulet named bird below:

SCI Name:  Phylloscartes beckeri
Protonym:  Phylloscartes beckeri Bull.Br.Orn.Club 115 p.88-97
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Phylloscartes
Taxonomy Code:  bahtyr1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Gonzaga & Pacheco
Publish Year:  1995
IUCN Status:  Endangered

DEFINITIONS

PHYLLOSCARTES
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet P. ventralis) Gr. φυλλον phullon  leaf; σκαιρω skairō  to skip, to dance; "Gen. PHYLLOSCARTES **) nov. gen. — Laub-Tachuri.   183. 1. P. ventralis Nob.   Muscicapa ventralis "Natt." Temm. Pl. col. 275. 2. — Tyrannulus ventralis Id. Tabl. méth. p. 27. — Elania ventralis Gray Gen. B. I. p. 250. 15. — Leptopogon ventralis Bp. Consp. I. p. 186. — Euscarthmus ventralis Burm. Th. Bras. II. p. 491.   ...   **) Von φυλλον (Laub) und σκαρτης (Springer).  Diese Gattung erinnert im Gefieder schon ganz an Leptopogon, hat aber einen breitern Schnabel mit weniger abgerundeter Firste und zeigt auch noch die für die Todinae characteristischen hohen Läufe." (Cabanis & Heine 1859); "Phylloscartes Cabanis and Heine, 1859, Mus. Heineanum, 2, p. 52. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa ventralis Temminck." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 63).
Synon. Guracava, Leptotriccus, Phyllooecia.

beckeri
● Prof. Johann Becker (1932-2004) Brazilian entomologist at Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (Phylloscartes).
● Robert H. Becker (fl. 1920) US collector in Brazil 1913-1920 (syn. Poecilotriccus sylvia, syn. Speotyto cunicularia grallaria, syn. Troglodytes musculus).