Spectacled tyrannulet

The spectacled tyrannulet, specious tyrannulet or mountain tyrannulet (Zimmerius improbus) is a small passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. It occurs in Venezuela and Colombia.

Spectacled tyrannulet
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Zimmerius
Species:
Z. improbus
Binomial name
Zimmerius improbus
(Sclater & Salvin, 1871)

The spectacled tyrannulet was described in 1871 by the English naturalists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin under the binomial name Tyranniscus improbus.[2] It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the Guatemalan tyrannulet (Zimmerius vilissimus).[3][4]

There are two subspecies:[4]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2017). "Zimmerius improbus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  2. Sclater, P.L.; Salvin, O. (1871). "Description of five new species of birds from the United States of Columbia". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 840–844 [841]. The volume is dated 1870 but was not published until 1871.
  3. "Proposal (441): Split Zimmerius improbus from Z. vilissimus". South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society. 2010. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
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