Amazonian Black-Tyrant
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Amazonian Black-Tyrant
Here the details of the Amazonian Black-Tyrant named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Empidochanes poecilocercus Orn.Brasil. Abth.2 p.116,181
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Knipolegus
Taxonomy Code: ambtyr1
Type Locality: Rio Amajau, Rio Negro, Brazil.
Author: von Pelzeln
Publish Year: 1868
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
KNIPOLEGUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Blue-billed Black Tyrant K. cyanirostris) Gr. κνιψ knips, κνιπος knipos insect; λεγω legō to pick; "X. Fam. Muscicapiadae Vigors. Muscicapa Lin. 2 ... 2 Ferner könnten als Gattungen abgesondert werden: Knipolegus für Musc. lophotes Tem. und cyaneirostris Vieill. Az. 181" (Boie 1826); "Knipolegus Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 973. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa cyanirostris Vieillot." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 173) (see Xolmis).
Var. Cnipolegus.
Synon. Ada, Blechropus, Entotriccus, Eumyiobius, Phaeotriccus, Sericoptila.
poecilocerca / poecilocercus
Gr. ποικιλος poikilos pied, spotted, variegated; κερκος kerkos tail.
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)
