Pogonotriccus
Genus of birds
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Pogonotriccus is a genus of small passerine birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. They are found in wooded habitats of Central and South America.
| Pogonotriccus | |
|---|---|
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| Marble-faced bristle tyrant (Pogonotriccus ophthalmicus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Tyrannidae |
| Genus: | Pogonotriccus Cabanis & Heine, 1860 |
| Type species | |
| Muscicapa eximius Temminck, 1822 | |
Taxonomy
The genus was erected by the German ornithologists Jean Cabanis and Ferdinand Heine in 1859 with the southern bristle tyrant (Pogonotriccus eximius) as the type species.[1] The genus has sometimes been merged into the genus Phylloscartes.[2][3] In 2004 John Fitzpatrick in the Handbook of the Birds of the World chose to treat Pogonotriccus as a separate genus based on the slight differences in behaviour of the birds in the two genera.[4] Frank Gill and David Donsker then also recognised Pogonotriccus in the list of bird species that they maintain on behalf of the International Ornithological Committee.[5] The evidence for splitting the genus is weak: a 2009 molecular phylogenetic study that included one species from Pogonotriccus and three from Phylloscartes, found that the genetic differences were small.[6]
Species
The genus contains nine species:[5]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
_-_Flickr_-_Alejandro_Bayer_(1).jpg) | Variegated bristle tyrant | Pogonotriccus poecilotis | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. |
| Chapman's bristle tyrant | Pogonotriccus chapmani | Venezuela. | |
| Marble-faced bristle tyrant | Pogonotriccus ophthalmicus | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. |
 | Spectacled bristle tyrant | Pogonotriccus orbitalis | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru |
| Venezuelan bristle tyrant | Pogonotriccus venezuelanus | Venezuela. | |
.jpg) | Antioquia bristle tyrant | Pogonotriccus lanyoni | Colombia. |
 | Southern bristle tyrant | Pogonotriccus eximius | Brazil, Paraguay and northeastern Argentina. |
| Sao Paulo bristle tyrant | Pogonotriccus paulista | ||
| Serra do Mar bristle tyrant | Pogonotriccus difficilis | ||
