Alectrurus

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Alectrurus
Cock-tailed Tyrant (Alectrurus tricolor) perched, distant.jpg
Cock-tailed tyrant (Alectrurus tricolor), Canastra, Brazil
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Alectrurus
Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Gallita tricolor [1]
Vieillot, 1816
Species

2, see text

Synonyms [2]
  • Alectorurus Gloger, 1842
  • Alectrura Reichenbach, 1850
  • Alectrururus Giebel, 1872
  • Alectura Swainson, 1837
  • Alecturus Temminck, 1822

Alectrurus is a genus of South American birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

The genus contains the following two species: [3]

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Cock-tailed Tyrant (Alectrurus tricolor) perched.jpg Alectrurus tricolor Cock-tailed tyrant Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay
Alectrurus risora - Strange-tailed tyrant (male).jpg Alectrurus risora Strange-tailed tyrant Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay

References

  1. ↑ "Tyrannidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. ↑ Alectrurus Vieillot, 1816 . Retrieved through: Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera  on 2019-08-14.
  3. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 1 July 2019.


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