Puna Ground-Tyrant / Muscisaxicola juninensis

Puna Ground-Tyrant / Muscisaxicola juninensis

Puna Ground-Tyrant

SCI Name:  Muscisaxicola juninensis
Protonym:  Muscisaxicola Juninensis Orn.Perou 2 p.214
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae /
Taxonomy Code:  pugtyr1
Type Locality:  Junin, Peru.
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Publish Year:  1884
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DEFINITIONS

MUSCISAXICOLA
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Rufous-naped Ground Tyrant M. rufivertex) Portmanteau of genera Muscicapa Brisson 1760, flycatcher, and Saxicola auct. (= Oenanthe Vieillot 1816), wheatear; "G. MUSCISAXICOLA. Nob.   Pedibus valde elongatis, gracilibus, unguibus anticis brevibus, postice longiore parum curvato, alis prælongis, acuminatis; cauda mediocris apice recto; rostro tenui, valde compresso, elongato, non basi depresso, quibus omnibus characteribus habituque toto Saxicolis hujus generis species proxime accedunt.   ...   1. M. rufivertex, Nob.   ...   2. M. mentalis, Nob.   ...   3. M. maculirostris, Nob.   ...   4. M. striaticeps, Nob." (d'Orbigny & de La Fresnaye 1837); "Muscisaxicola d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye, 1837, Mag. Zool. [Paris], 7, cl. 2, p. 65. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Genera Birds, p. 24), Muscisaxicola rufivertex d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 168).
Synon. Ptyonura.

juninensis
● Junín, Peru (Geositta, Muscisaxicola, subsp. Speotyto cunicularia).
● Lake Junín (subsp. Phleocryptes melanops, Podiceps).