Pyrocephalus
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| Scarlet flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Tyrannidae |
| Genus: | Pyrocephalus Gould, 1838 |
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| Muscicapa coronata[1] Gmelin, 1789
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Pyrocephalus is a genus of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family, Tyrannidae.
The genus was introduced by the English ornithologist and bird artist John Gould in 1839 in Charles Darwin's Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.[2][a] The type species was designated as the scarlet flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1840.[6][7] The name Pyrocephalus combines the Ancient Greek purrhos meaning "flame-coloured" or "red" and -kephalos meaning "-headed".[8]
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]The tyrant flycatcher family, the Tyrannidae, is a group of passerine birds present only in the New World, and its members are generally drab in coloration.[9] Within it, the subfamily Fluvicolinae comprises the genera Pyrocephalus, Contopus, Empidonax, and Sayornis. They likely shared a common ancestor in the Contopus or Xenotriccus genus before diversifying. The Pyrocephalus are most closely related to the Sayornis in terms of morphology, but genetic analysis shows that they may be more closely related to the Fluvicola.[10] The vermilion flycatcher likely evolved around 1.15–million years ago (mya), with the species on the Galápagos Islands having split off around 0.82–mya. The South American species/subspecies diverged about 0.56–mya.[11]
Species
[edit | edit source]The genus contains four species:[12]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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| File:Pyrocephalus rubinus Titiribí pechirrojo Vermilion Flycatcher (male) (17321352426).jpg | Pyrocephalus rubinus | Scarlet flycatcher | Southeastern Bolivia and Brazil, Paraguay to Argentina and Uruguay |
| File:Pyrocephalus rubinus 1.jpg | Pyrocephalus obscurus | Vermilion flycatcher | Almost all of Mexico; it extends north into the southwestern United States, and south to scattered portions of Central America, parts of northwestern and central South America |
| File:Flycatcher1.jpg | Pyrocephalus nanus | Darwin's flycatcher | Galápagos Islands |
| — | ✝Pyrocephalus dubius | San Cristóbal flycatcher | San Cristóbal Island in the Galápagos Islands (prior to extinction) |
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Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ Some taxonomists date the publication to 1838.[3] Although the title page to Aves. Part III is dated 1841, the volume was issued in five parts. Page 44 containing the text was issued in 1839 but plates VI and VII were issued in 1838 and have captions that include the generic name Pyrocephalus.[4][5]
References
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External links
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