Mouse-colored Tyrannulet
Mouse-colored Tyrannulet
Here the details of the Mouse-colored Tyrannulet named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Platyrhynchus murinus Av.Sp.Nov.Brasil. 2 p.14 pl.16 fig.2
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Phaeomyias
Taxonomy Code: moctyr1
Type Locality: Brazil; restricted to Joazeiro [= Juazeiro] , Rio Sao Francisco, northern Bahia, by Pinto, 1944, Cat. Aves Brasil (Publ. Dept. Zool., Sao Paulo), pt. 2, p. 285.
Author: von Spix
Publish Year: 1825
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
PHAEOMYIAS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Mouse-coloured Tyrannulet P. murina incomta) Gr. φαιος phaios dusky, brown; Mod. L. myias flycatcher < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias fly; πιαζω piazō to seize; "Phaeomyias* incomta Cab. ... *Berlepsch having inspected the specimen of "Myiopatis incanescens" in the Museum Heineanum, has satisfied himself that it is = Ornithion cinerascens (Wied), olim O. imberbe Scl. The other species enumerated by Cabanis & Heine, - viz. M. obsoleta and M. pusilla - also belong to the genus Ornithion Hartl., of which Myiopatis Cab. & Heine thus becomes a synonym. Therefore Myiopatis cannot be used for Ph. incomta and allies, for which Berlepsch proposes the new appellation Phaeomyias (φαιος = fuscus, μυιας = nomen propr.) with the species: 1. Ph. incomta (Cab. & Heine); 2. M. wagae (Tacz.); 3. M. tumbezana (Tacs.)" (von Berlepsch 1902); "Phaeomyias Berlepsch, 1902, Novit. Zool., 9, p. 41. Type, by subsequent designation (Chubb, 1921, Birds British Guiana, 2, p. 177), "P. incompta" [= Elainea incomta] Cabanis and Heine." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 16) (see Nesotriccus).
Var. Chaeomyias.
murina
Mod. L. murinus mouse-grey < L. murinus of mice, mouse- < mus, muris mouse.
● ex “Murine Warbler” of Latham 1783 (unident.).
SUBSPECIES
Mouse-colored Tyrannulet (Northern)
SCI Name: Phaeomyias murina incomta/eremonoma
PHAEOMYIAS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Mouse-coloured Tyrannulet P. murina incomta) Gr. φαιος phaios dusky, brown; Mod. L. myias flycatcher < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias fly; πιαζω piazō to seize; "Phaeomyias* incomta Cab. ... *Berlepsch having inspected the specimen of "Myiopatis incanescens" in the Museum Heineanum, has satisfied himself that it is = Ornithion cinerascens (Wied), olim O. imberbe Scl. The other species enumerated by Cabanis & Heine, - viz. M. obsoleta and M. pusilla - also belong to the genus Ornithion Hartl., of which Myiopatis Cab. & Heine thus becomes a synonym. Therefore Myiopatis cannot be used for Ph. incomta and allies, for which Berlepsch proposes the new appellation Phaeomyias (φαιος = fuscus, μυιας = nomen propr.) with the species: 1. Ph. incomta (Cab. & Heine); 2. M. wagae (Tacz.); 3. M. tumbezana (Tacs.)" (von Berlepsch 1902); "Phaeomyias Berlepsch, 1902, Novit. Zool., 9, p. 41. Type, by subsequent designation (Chubb, 1921, Birds British Guiana, 2, p. 177), "P. incompta" [= Elainea incomta] Cabanis and Heine." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 16) (see Nesotriccus).
Var. Chaeomyias.
Mouse-colored Tyrannulet (Amazonian)
SCI Name: Phaeomyias murina murina/wagae
PHAEOMYIAS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Mouse-coloured Tyrannulet P. murina incomta) Gr. φαιος phaios dusky, brown; Mod. L. myias flycatcher < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias fly; πιαζω piazō to seize; "Phaeomyias* incomta Cab. ... *Berlepsch having inspected the specimen of "Myiopatis incanescens" in the Museum Heineanum, has satisfied himself that it is = Ornithion cinerascens (Wied), olim O. imberbe Scl. The other species enumerated by Cabanis & Heine, - viz. M. obsoleta and M. pusilla - also belong to the genus Ornithion Hartl., of which Myiopatis Cab. & Heine thus becomes a synonym. Therefore Myiopatis cannot be used for Ph. incomta and allies, for which Berlepsch proposes the new appellation Phaeomyias (φαιος = fuscus, μυιας = nomen propr.) with the species: 1. Ph. incomta (Cab. & Heine); 2. M. wagae (Tacz.); 3. M. tumbezana (Tacs.)" (von Berlepsch 1902); "Phaeomyias Berlepsch, 1902, Novit. Zool., 9, p. 41. Type, by subsequent designation (Chubb, 1921, Birds British Guiana, 2, p. 177), "P. incompta" [= Elainea incomta] Cabanis and Heine." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 16) (see Nesotriccus).
Var. Chaeomyias.
Mouse-colored Tyrannulet (Tumbes)
SCI Name: Phaeomyias murina tumbezana/inflava
PHAEOMYIAS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Mouse-coloured Tyrannulet P. murina incomta) Gr. φαιος phaios dusky, brown; Mod. L. myias flycatcher < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias fly; πιαζω piazō to seize; "Phaeomyias* incomta Cab. ... *Berlepsch having inspected the specimen of "Myiopatis incanescens" in the Museum Heineanum, has satisfied himself that it is = Ornithion cinerascens (Wied), olim O. imberbe Scl. The other species enumerated by Cabanis & Heine, - viz. M. obsoleta and M. pusilla - also belong to the genus Ornithion Hartl., of which Myiopatis Cab. & Heine thus becomes a synonym. Therefore Myiopatis cannot be used for Ph. incomta and allies, for which Berlepsch proposes the new appellation Phaeomyias (φαιος = fuscus, μυιας = nomen propr.) with the species: 1. Ph. incomta (Cab. & Heine); 2. M. wagae (Tacz.); 3. M. tumbezana (Tacs.)" (von Berlepsch 1902); "Phaeomyias Berlepsch, 1902, Novit. Zool., 9, p. 41. Type, by subsequent designation (Chubb, 1921, Birds British Guiana, 2, p. 177), "P. incompta" [= Elainea incomta] Cabanis and Heine." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 16) (see Nesotriccus).
Var. Chaeomyias.
Mouse-colored Tyrannulet (Marañon)
SCI Name: Phaeomyias murina maranonica
maranonica / smaranonicum / maranonicus
Río Marañón, Peru. The Tupí originally applied the name Maranon to the Rio Parana in Brazil; it was later used of the main Amazon, and is now the name of the upper or Peruvian reaches of that river.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)