Ramphotrigon Fuscicauda Bird

Ramphotrigon Fuscicauda Bird

Ramphotrigon Fuscicauda Bird

English Name:  Dusky-tailed Flatbill
Latin Name:  Ramphotrigon fuscicauda
Protonym:  Ramphotrigon fuscicauda Am.Mus.Novit. no.187 p.5
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Ramphotrigon
Taxonomy Code:  dutfla1
Type Locality:  lower Rio Suno, eastern Ecuador.
Author:  Chapman
Publish Year:  1925
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

RAMPHOTRIGON
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Rufous-tailed Flatbill R. ruficauda) Gr. ῥαμφος rhamphos  bill; τριγωνον trigōnon  triangle  < τρεις treis, τριων triōn  three; γωνια gōnia  angle; "Rostro trigono, supra subtusque plano, latiore quam longiore, praecipue maxilla inferiore plana, lata" (von Spix 1825); "APPENDIX.  ...  808 d. (2343.) RAMPHOTRIGON, Pr. B. 1854.  (Platyrhynchus ruficaudus, Spix.)" (G. Gray 1855).
Var. Ramphotrigron.

fuscicauda
L. fuscus  dusky; cauda  tail.