The rusty-margined flycatcher (''Myiozetetes cayanensis'') is a species of

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in the family

Tyrannidae The tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae) are a family of passerine birds which occur throughout North and South America. They are considered the largest family of birds known to exist in the world, with more than 400 species. They are the most dive ...

, the

tyrant flycatcher The tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae) are a family of passerine birds which occur throughout North and South America. They are considered the largest family of birds known to exist in the world, with more than 400 species. They are the most dive ...

s. It is found in northern and central

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, Ecuador, French Guiana,

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, Peru,

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, and Venezuela; also eastern Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Taxonomy

In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the rusty-margined flycatcher in his ''Ornithologie'' based on a specimen collected in

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in French Guiana. He used the French name ''Le gobe-mouche de Cayenne'' and the Latin ''Muscicapa Cayanensis''. The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the

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and are not recognised by the

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. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his ''

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'' for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. One of these was the rusty-margined flycatcher. Linnaeus included a brief description, used Brisson's Latin name as the

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''Muscicapa cayanensis'' and cited Brisson's work. This species is now placed in the genus ''

Myiozetetes ''Myiozetetes'' is a small genus of passerine birds in the tyrant flycatcher family. The four species occur in tropical Central America, Central and South America. Taxonomy The genus ''Myiozetetes '' was introduced by the English zoologist Phil ...

'' that was introduced by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1859 . Four

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are recognised.

References

External links

Rusty-margined flycatcher videos
on the Internet Bird Collection

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rusty-margined flycatcher The rusty-margined flycatcher (''Myiozetetes cayanensis'') is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in northern and central South America in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially ...

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Taxonomy

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