Helmeted pygmy tyrant

The helmeted pygmy tyrant (Lophotriccus galeatus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae.[2] 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.[3]

Helmeted pygmy tyrant
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Lophotriccus
Species:
L. galeatus
Binomial name
Lophotriccus galeatus
(Boddaert, 1783)

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.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6] The helmeted pygmy tyrant is now placed in the genus Lophotriccus that was introduced by the German ornithologist Hans von Berlepsch in 1883.[7] The species is monotypic.[8] 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".[9]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Lophotriccus galeatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. "Helmeted Pygmy-tyrant (Lophotriccus galeatus)". Handbook of Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  3. "Helmeted Pygmy-Tyrant - Introduction". Neotropical Birds Online. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  4. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1780). "Le figuier huppé". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Volume 9. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. p. 462.
  5. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de; Martinet, François-Nicolas; Daubenton, Edme-Louis; Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "Figuier hupé, de Cayenne". Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle. Volume 4. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. Plate 391 Fig. 1.
  6. Boddaert, Pieter (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 (in French). Utrecht. p. 24, Number 391 Fig. 1.
  7. Berlepsch, Hans von (1883). "Liste des oiseaux recueillis par MM. Stolzmann et Siemiradzki dans l'Ecuadeur occidental". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (in French): 536–577 [553]. The volume has 1883 on the title page but the issue was not published until 1884.
  8. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  9. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 169, 232. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.


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