Mitrephanes

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Mitrephanes
Mitrephanes phaeocercus -Costa Rica-8a.jpg
Northern tufted flycatcher
(Mitrephanes phaeocercus)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Mitrephanes
Coues, 1882
Type species
Mitrephorus phaeocercus [1]
Sclater, 1859

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

It contains two species: [2]

ImageCommon nameScientific nameDistribution
Mitrephanes phaeocercus -Costa Rica-8a.jpg Northern tufted flycatcher Mitrephanes phaeocercusnorthwestern Mexico to northwestern Ecuador
Olive tufted flycatcher Mitrephanes olivaceusYungas of Peru and western Bolivia.

References

  1. "Tyrannidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 June 2019.