Little Ground-Tyrant

Little Ground-Tyrant / Muscisaxicola fluviatilis

Little Ground-Tyrant

Here the details of the Little Ground-Tyrant named bird below:

SCI Name:  Muscisaxicola fluviatilis
Protonym:  Muscisaxicola fluviatilis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.187
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae /
Taxonomy Code:  ligtyr1
Type Locality:  lower Rio Ucayali, Peru.
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Publish Year:  1866
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DEFINITIONS

MUSCISAXICOLA
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Rufous-naped Ground Tyrant M. rufivertex) Portmanteau of genera Muscicapa Brisson 1760, flycatcher, and Saxicola auct. (= Oenanthe Vieillot 1816), wheatear; "G. MUSCISAXICOLA. Nob.   Pedibus valde elongatis, gracilibus, unguibus anticis brevibus, postice longiore parum curvato, alis prælongis, acuminatis; cauda mediocris apice recto; rostro tenui, valde compresso, elongato, non basi depresso, quibus omnibus characteribus habituque toto Saxicolis hujus generis species proxime accedunt.   ...   1. M. rufivertex, Nob.   ...   2. M. mentalis, Nob.   ...   3. M. maculirostris, Nob.   ...   4. M. striaticeps, Nob." (d'Orbigny & de La Fresnaye 1837); "Muscisaxicola d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye, 1837, Mag. Zool. [Paris], 7, cl. 2, p. 65. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Genera Birds, p. 24), Muscisaxicola rufivertex d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 168).
Synon. Ptyonura.

fluviatilis
L. fluviatilis  riverine, of a river  < fluvius, fluvii  river  < fluere  to flow.
● ex “Grèbe de rivière”, “Castagneaux” or “Colymbus fluviatilis” of Brisson 1760, and “Dob-chick” of Pennant 1766 (syn. Tachybaptus ruficollis).