Fluvicola | |
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Masked water tyrant Fluvicola nengeta | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Tyrannidae |
Genus: | Fluvicola Swainson, 1827 |
Type species | |
Fluvicola cursoria [1] = Lanius nengeta Swainson, 1832 |
Fluvicola is a genus of birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.
The genus was introduced by the English naturalist William John Swainson in 1827. [2] He designated the type species as the masked water tyrant (Fluvicola nengeta) in 1831. [3] [4] The genus name is derived from a combination of Latin fluvius meaning "river" and -cola meaning "dweller". [5]
The genus contains the following three species: [6]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Fluvicola pica | Pied water tyrant | from Panama and Trinidad south to Bolivia and Argentina. | |
Fluvicola albiventer | Black-backed water tyrant | central and northeastern Brazil and south through Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina and Uruguay; also eastern Peru | |
Fluvicola nengeta | Masked water tyrant | eastern and southeastern Brazil, western Ecuador, and coastal border regions of northwest Peru | |
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