Rio de Janeiro Antwren / Myrmotherula fluminensis
WBN Rio de Janeiro Antwren
SCI Name:
Protonym: Myrmotherula fluminensis Bull.Br.Orn.Club 108 p.132-135
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thamnophilidae / Myrmotherula
Taxonomy Code: rdjant2
Type Locality:
Author: Gonzaga
Publish Year: 1988
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
MYRMOTHERULA
(Thamnophilidae; Ϯ Pygmy Antwren M. brachyura) Dim. < genus Myrmothera Vieillot, 1816, antpitta; "GENUS II. MYRMOTHERULA. Cauda brevis; sæpe brevissima: rectricibus plerumque duodecim, interdum decem: rostrum tenue, subulatum, non magis altum quam latum: acrotarsiis et paratarsiis divisis. In M. pygmæa and the next following species of this genus the tail is very diminutive, and the tail-feathers are much narrowed. In the latter part of the series it is longer and more broadly feathered, but never so elongated as in true Formicivora. The general facies of these two genera is otherwise nearly the same. 1. MYRMOTHERULA PYGMÆA. Gobemouche à poitrine orangée de Cayenne, Buff. Pl. Enl. 831. fig. 2. Muscicapa pygmæa, Gm. S. N. i. p. 933. Myrmothera minuta, D'Orb. Voy. p. 184? Formicivora pygmæa, Cab. Orn. Not. p. 227; Bp. Consp. p. 200; Sclater, P.Z.S. 1855, p. 147. ... 2. MYRMOTHERULA SURINAMENSIS ... 3. MYRMOTHERULA MULTOSTRIATA ... 4. MYRMOTHERULA GUTTATA ... 5. MYRMOTHERULA GULARIS ... 6. MYRMOTHERULA HÆMATONOTA ... 7. MYRMOTHERULA ORNATA ... 8. MYRMOTHERULA HAUXWELLI ... 9. MYRMOTHERULA ERYTHRONOTA ... 10. MYRMOTHERULA AXILLARIS. Le grisin de Cayenne, femelle, Buff. ... 11. MYRMOTHERULA MELÆNA ... 12. MYRMOTHERULA MENETRIESI ... 13. MYRMOTHERULA BREVICAUDA ... 14. MYRMOTHERULAUROSTICTA" (P. Sclater 1858); "Myrmotherula Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 26, 1858, p. 234. Type, by subsequent designation, M. pygmaea, i.e. Muscicapa pygmaea Gmelin = Muscicapa brachyura Hermann (Sclater, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 15, 1890, p. 229)." (Peters 1951, VII, 188).
Var. Myrmetherula, Myrmotheula, Mormotherula.
Synon. Myrmopagis, Myrmophila, Myrmotherium, Poliolaema.
fluminensis
Mod. L. fluminensis of the river (i.e. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) < L. flumen, fluminis river < fluere to flow (syn. Myrmotherula luctuosa).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
