Helmeted pygmy tyrant explained

The helmeted pygmy tyrant (Lophotriccus galeatus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae.[1] It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.[2]

Taxonomy

The helmeted pygmy tyrant was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a sample collected in Cayenne, French Guiana.[3] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text.[4] Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Montacilla galeata in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées.[5] The helmeted pygmy tyrant is now placed in the genus Lophotriccus that was introduced by the German ornithologist Hans von Berlepsch in 1883.[6] The species is monotypic.[7] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek lophos meaning "crest" with trikkos which is an unidentified small bird. In ornithology triccus is used to denote a tyrant flycatcher. The specific name galeatus is Latin for "helmeted".[8]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Helmeted Pygmy-tyrant (Lophotriccus galeatus) . Handbook of Birds of the World Alive . . 20 August 2018.
  2. Web site: Helmeted Pygmy-Tyrant - Introduction . Neotropical Birds Online . . 20 August 2018.
  3. Book: Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de . Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon . 1780 . Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux . 9 . Paris . De L'Imprimerie Royale . 462 . Le figuier huppé . fr . https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42302253 .
  4. Book: Buffon . Georges-Louis Leclerc de . Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon . Martinet . François-Nicolas . François-Nicolas Martinet . Daubenton . Edme-Louis . Edme-Louis Daubenton . Daubenton . Louis-Jean-Marie . Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton . 1765–1783 . Figuier hupé, de Cayenne . Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle . 4 . Paris . De L'Imprimerie Royale . Plate 391 Fig. 1 . https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35205297 .
  5. Book: Boddaert, Pieter . Pieter Boddaert . 1783 . Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés . Utrecht . 24, Number 391 Fig. 1 . fr .
  6. Berlepsch . Hans von . Hans von Berlepsch . 1883 . Liste des oiseaux recueillis par MM. Stolzmann et Siemiradzki dans l'Ecuadeur occidental . fr . Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . 536–577 [553] . The volume has 1883 on the title page but the issue was not published until 1884.
  7. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2019 . Tyrant flycatchers . World Bird List Version 9.2 . International Ornithologists' Union . 16 August 2019 .
  8. Book: Jobling, James A. . 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . limited . Christopher Helm . London . 978-1-4081-2501-4 . 169, 232 .

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Helmeted pygmy tyrant".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.