Blue-billed Black-Tyrant

Blue-billed Black-Tyrant / Knipolegus cyanirostris

Blue-billed Black-Tyrant

Here the details of the Blue-billed Black-Tyrant named bird below:

SCI Name:  Knipolegus cyanirostris
Protonym:  Muscicapa cyanirostris Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 21 p.447
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae /
Taxonomy Code:  bbbtyr1
Type Locality:  Paraguay.
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Publish Year:  1818
IUCN Status:  

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. AdaBlechropus, Entotriccus, Eumyiobius, Phaeotriccus, Sericoptila.

cyanirostris
L. cyaneus  dark-blue  < Gr. κυανεος kuaneos  dark-blue, glossy; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Suirirí negro pico celeste” of de Azara 1802-1805, no.181 (Knipolegus).