Dusky-tailed Flatbill

Dusky-tailed Flatbill / Ramphotrigon fuscicauda

Dusky-tailed Flatbill

Here the details of the Dusky-tailed Flatbill named bird below:

SCI Name:  Ramphotrigon fuscicauda
Protonym:  Ramphotrigon fuscicauda Am.Mus.Novit. no.187 p.5
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae /
Taxonomy Code:  dutfla1
Type Locality:  lower Rio Suno, eastern Ecuador.
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Publish Year:  1925
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

RAMPHOTRIGON
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Rufous-tailed Flatbill R. ruficauda) Gr. ῥαμφος rhamphos  bill; τριγωνον trigōnon  triangle  < τρεις treis, τριων triōn  three; γωνια gōnia  angle; "Rostro trigono, supra subtusque plano, latiore quam longiore, praecipue maxilla inferiore plana, lata" (von Spix 1825); "APPENDIX.  ...  808 d. (2343.) RAMPHOTRIGON, Pr. B. 1854.  (Platyrhynchus ruficaudus, Spix.)" (G. Gray 1855).
Var. Ramphotrigron.

fuscicauda
L. fuscus  dusky; cauda  tail.