Royal flycatcher
Amazonian royal flycatcher at Apiacás, Mato Grosso state, Brasil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tityridae
Subfamily: Oxyruncinae
Genus: Onychorhynchus
Fischer von Waldheim, 1810

The royal flycatchers are a genus, Onychorhynchus, of passerine birds in the family Tityridae.[1]

Names

The specific epithet of the type species, coronatus, and the common name of all the species in this genus, royal flycatcher, refer to the striking, colourful crest,[2] which is seen displayed very rarely,[2] except after mating, while preening, in courtship as well as being handled.[2]

The genus name Onychorhynchus comes from the Greek words ὄνυξ onyx "nail" and ρυγχος rhynkhos "bill".[3]

Species

The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) and BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) place four species in the genus:[1][4]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Onychorhynchus coronatusAmazonian royal flycatcherAmazon basin in northern Bolivia, eastern Peru, eastern Ecuador, eastern Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern and western Brazil
Onychorhynchus mexicanusNorthern royal flycatcherMexico, south through most of Central America, to northwestern Colombia and far western Venezuela
Onychorhynchus occidentalisPacific royal flycatcherWestern Ecuador and far northwestern Peru
Onychorhynchus swainsoniAtlantic royal flycatcherAtlantic forest in southeastern Brazil

The North American and South American Classification Committees of the American Ornithological Society (AOS) treat the genus as having one species, the royal flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus), with multiple subspecies. The AOS committees place it in family Onychorhynchidae with four other species of two genera that the IOC and HBW include in Tityridae. The Clements taxonomy treats the royal flycatcher as two species, the monotypic Atlantic royal flycatcher and the "tropical royal flycatcher". The latter includes the IOC/HBW northern, Pacific, and Amazonian royal flycatchers as subspecies. Clements places its two species, the same four additional species as the AOS, and the sharpbill (Oxyruncus cristatus) in family Oxyruncidae, which the AOS reserves for the sharpbill alone.[5][6][7][1][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2023). "Cotingas, manakins, tityras, becards". IOC World Bird List (v 13.2). International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 Ridgely, Robert and John A. Gwynne Jr. (1989). A Guide to the Birds of Panama with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691025126.
  3. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London, UK: Christopher Helm. p. 282. ISBN 978-1-4081-3326-2. OCLC 659731768.
  4. 1 2 HBW and BirdLife International (2022) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world. Version 7. Available at: https://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v7_Dec22.zip retrieved December 13, 2022
  5. ↑ Chesser, R. T., S. M. Billerman, K. J. Burns, C. Cicero, J. L. Dunn, B. E. Hern ndez-Ba os, R. A. Jim nez, A. W. Kratter, N. A. Mason, P. C. Rasmussen, J. V. Remsen, Jr., and K. Winker. 2023. Check-list of North American Birds (online). American Ornithological Society. https://checklist.americanornithology.org/taxa/
  6. ↑ Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, G. Del-Rio, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 28 September 2023. A classification of the bird species of South America. American Ornithological Society. https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm retrieved October 20, 2023
  7. ↑ Clements, J. F., P.C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ retrieved October 28, 2023
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