Species of bird
The tawny-crowned greenlet (Tunchiornis ochraceiceps species of bird in the family Vireonidae and is the only species placed in the genus Tunchiornis Belize , Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Costa Rica , Ecuador , French Guiana , Guatemala , Guyana , Honduras , Mexico , Nicaragua , Panama , Peru , Suriname , and Venezuela . Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest .
Taxonomy
The tawny-crowned greenlet was formally described in 1860 by the English zoologist Philip Sclater . The specimen had been collected in the state of Oaxaca of southwest Mexico by the French ornithologist Adolphe Boucard . Sclater coined the binomial name Hylophilus ochraceiceps .[ 2] Modern Latin ochraceus meaning "ochraceous" with -ceps meaning "-capped".[ 3] monotypic genus Tunchiornis that was introduced in 2014.[ 4] [ 5]
Ten subspecies are recognised:[ 5]
T. o. ochraceiceps (Sclater, PL , 1860) – south Mexico, Belize and north GuatemalaT. o. pallidipectus (Ridgway , 1903) – south Guatemala and Honduras to northwest PanamaT. o. pacificus (Parkes , 1991) – southeast Costa Rica and west PanamaT. o. nelsoni (Todd , 1929) – east PanamaT. o. bulunensis (Hartert, E , 1902) – extreme east Panama, west Colombia and northwest Ecuador T. o. ferrugineifrons (Sclater, PL, 1862) – southeast Colombia, south Venezuela, west-central Guyana, northwest Brazil, Ecuador and PeruT. o. viridior (Todd, 1929) – south Peru and north BoliviaT. o. luteifrons (Sclater, PL, 1881) – east Venezuela, the Guianas and north BrazilT. o. lutescens (Snethlage, E , 1914) – north-central Brazil south of the AmazonT. o. rubrifrons (Sclater, PL & Salvin , 1867) – northeast Brazil south of the Amazon
References
^ BirdLife International (2017). "Tunchiornis ochraceiceps " . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017 : e.T103693796A113471007. doi :10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T103693796A113471007.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021 . ^ Sclater, Philip Lutley (1860). "List of birds collected by M. A. Boucard in the State of Oaxaca in south-western Mexico, with descriptions of new species" . Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . 27 : 369–393 [375].^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. p. 279. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 ^ Slager, David L.; Klicka, John (2014). "Polyphyly of Hylophilus and a new genus for the Tawny-crowned Greenlet (Aves: Passeriformes: Vireonidae)" . Zootaxa . 3884 (2): 194–196. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.3884.2.8 . PMID 25543778 . ^ a b Gill, Frank ; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela , eds. (July 2021). "Shrikes, vireos, shrike-babblers" . IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 . International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 July 2021 .
Further reading
Genera of
corvides and their extinct allies
