Guianan greenlet

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Guianan greenlet
Tunchiornis ochraceiceps luteifrons Olive-crowned Greenlet; Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil (cropped).jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Vireonidae
Genus: Tunchiornis
Species:
T. luteifrons
Binomial name
Tunchiornis luteifrons
(Sclater, PL, 1881)
Tunchiornis luteifrons map.svg

The Guianan greenlet (Tunchiornis luteifrons), also known as the olive-crowned greenlet, is a passerine bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos. It is found in South America in the Guiana Shield region which includes the countries and territories of Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, as well as sections of northern Brazil and eastern Venezuela. It was split from the ochre-crowned greenlet in 2025 by AviList and the Clements Checklist. [1] Owing to its recent separation as a species, virtually nothing distinctive is known about its natural history. [2]

Taxonomy

The Guianan greenlet was first described in 1881 as Hylophilus luteifrons by the English zoologist Philip Sclater from a specimen collected in British Guiana (now Guyana). It was later treated to be a subspecies of tawny-crowned greenlet (now called ochre-crowned greenlet). [3] It is considered to be monotypic. [4]

References

  1. "Treat Tunchiornis ochraceiceps (Tawny-crowned Greenlet) as consisting of four species". museum.lsu.edu. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
  2. Remsen Jr., J. V.; Kirwan, Guy M.; Boesman, Peter F. D.; Brewer, David; del Hoyo, Josep; Collar, Nigel. "Rufous-fronted Greenlet (Tunchiornis ferrugineifrons)". Birds of the World. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
  3. Sclater, Philip Lutley. "On the Genus Hylophilus". Ibis. 4. 5 (19): 308. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
  4. AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi: 10.2173/avilist.v2025 . Retrieved 9 December 2025.