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Zimmerius improbus (15014408014)

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Archosauromorpha
Cladus: Crurotarsi
Divisio: Archosauria
Subsectio: Ornithodira
Subtaxon: Dinosauromorpha
Cladus: Dinosauria
Ordo: Saurischia
Cladus: Theropoda
Cladus: Neotheropoda
Infraclassis: Aves
Ordo: Passeriformes
Subordo: Tyranni
Infraordo: Tyrannides
Parvordo: Tyrannida

Familia: Tyrannidae
Genus: Zimmerius
Species: Zimmerius improbus
Subspecies: Z. i. improbus – Z. i. tamae
Name

Zimmerius improbus (P.L. Sclater & Salvin, 1871)

Type locality: Mérida, Venezuela.

Synonyms

Tyranniscus improbus (protonym)
Zimmerius vilissimus improbus (P.L. Sclater & Salvin, 1871)

References
Primary references

Sclater, P.L. & Salvin, O. 1870. Descriptions of new Species of Birds from the United States of Columbia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Pt.3: 840–844, pl.53. BHL Reference page. Original description p. 841 BHL pl. 53 fig. 3 BHL

Additional references

Rheindt, F.E., Cuervo, A.M. & Brumfield, R.T. 2013. Rampant polyphyly indicates cryptic diversity in a clade of Neotropical flycatchers (Aves: Tyrannidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 108: 889–900. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.02036.x Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Rheindt, F.E., Fujita, M.K., Wilton, P.R. & Edwards, S.V. 2014. Introgression and phenotypic assimilation in Zimmerius flycatchers (Tyrannidae): population genetic and phylogenetic inferences from genome-wide SNPs. Systematic Biology 63: 134–152. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syt070Full article (PDF)Reference page.

Vernacular names
English: Specious tyrannulet
español: Mosquerito serrano

The spectacled tyrannulet, specious tyrannulet or mountain tyrannulet (Zimmerius improbus) is a small passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. It occurs in Venezuela and Colombia.

The spectacled tyrannulet was described in 1871 by the English naturalists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin under the binomial name Tyranniscus improbus.[2] It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the Guatemalan tyrannulet (Zimmerius vilissimus).[3][4]

There are two subspecies:[4]

Zimmerius improbus tamae (Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1954) – Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northeast Colombia
Zimmerius improbus improbus (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1871) – Serranía del Perijá in northeast Colombia and northwest Venezuela

References

BirdLife International (2017). "Zimmerius improbus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T104008963A112284037. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T104008963A112284037.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
Sclater, P.L.; Salvin, O. (1871). "Description of five new species of birds from the United States of Columbia". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 840–844 [841]. The volume is dated 1870 but was not published until 1871.
"Proposal (441): Split Zimmerius improbus from Z. vilissimus". South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society. 2010. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 9 January 2018.

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