Santa Marta Bush-Tyrant / Myiotheretes pernix
WBN 
Santa Marta Bush-Tyrant
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ochthodiaeta pernix Proc.Biol.Soc.Wash. 13 p.95
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Myiotheretes
Taxonomy Code: smbtyr1
Type Locality: Macotama, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.
Author: Bangs
Publish Year: 1899
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
MYIOTHERETES
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Streak-throated Bush Tyrant M. striaticollis pallidus) Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias fly; θηρατης thēratēs hunter < θηραω thēraō to hunt < θηρ thēr, θηρος thēros beast, animal. Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXVI, labelled Muscicapinae: Tyranninae, illustrates a variety of bristled and generally heavy-billed tyrant flycatchers, including this distinctly streak-throated bird; "Myiotheretes Reichenbach, 1850, Avium Syst. Nat., pl. 66. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds., p. 48), "Tyrannus rufiventer D'Orb." = Myiotheretes striaticollis pallidus Berlepsch." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 160).
Synon. Ochthodiaeta, Orodynastes.
pernix
L. pernix, pernicis agile, active < per exceedingly, very; niti, nixus to strive.
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)
