Myiozetetes similis

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, tropical deciduous forests, gallery forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands • Maximum Elevation: 1,500 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,239 meters (0 to 17,188 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
  
•     3.7     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.2     Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
  
•     14.5     Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Myiozetetes similis (Spix, 1825)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 29-Nov-2006

Similar Species

Members of the genus Myiozetetes

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species and subspecies in this genus:

M. cayanensis (Rusty Margined Flycatcher) · M. cayanensis cayanensis (Rusty Margined Flycatcher) · M. granadensis (Grey-Capped Flycatcher) · M. granadensis granadensis (Gray-Capped Flycatcher) · M. luteiventris (Dusky-Chested Flycatcher) · M. luteiventris luteiventris (Dusky-Chested Flycatcher) · M. similis (Vermulion-Crowned Flycatcher) · M. similis similis (Vermulion-Crowned Flycatcher)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the collection of birds formed by the late Hugh Edwin Strickland. Cambridge, Univ. Press, 1882. url p. 309.
• A contribution to the ornithology of northeastern Brazil, by Charles E. Hellmayr. 12 1929 Chicago, 1929. url p. 311.
• A geographic classification of Neotropical mammals. 36 1958 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1958. url p. 626.
• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 589.
• Annotated checklist of bird and mammal species of Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu National Park, Peru / John W. Terborgh, John W. Fitzpatrick, Louise Emmons. 21 1984 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1984. url table 2 , p. 23.
• Biologia centrali-americana: Aves / [London: R.H. Porter], 1879-1904. url , , .
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 177, p. 233, p. 265, p. 268, p. 444, p. 449, p. 899, p. 96, p. 964.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1971 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url expl. of plate 9 , expl. of plate 10 , expl. of plate 9 , expl. of plate 10 , p. 101, p. 101, p. 177, p. 177, p. 303, p. 309, p. 339, p. 37, p. 52, p. 52, p. 55, p. 55, p. 57, p. 57.
• Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. New YorkAmerican Museum of Natural History1881- url p. 234, p. 421.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 78 1935 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 348, p. 352.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1971- url p. 127, p. 128.
• Catalogue of a collection of American birds / belonging to Philip Lutley Sclater. London: N. Trubner and Co., 1862. url p. 219.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. initiated by Charles B. Cory, continued by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1927 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1927. url p. 141, p. 142, p. 143, p. 145.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 161, p. 162.
• Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum / By E. W. Oates [and afterwards] by S. G. Reid [and] W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. London, 1901-12. url p. 198, p. 199.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History) London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 198.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 468.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 211.
• Color key to North American birds, New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1903. url .
• Guide to the Gallery of Birds in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History). London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1921. url p. 113.
• Guide to the gallery of birds in the department of zoology, British Museum (Natural History) London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1921. url p. 113.
• Handbook of birds of the western United States: including the Great Plains, Great Basin, Pacific Slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley / by Florence Merriam Bailey. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915, c1902. url p. 250.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 203, p. 342, p. 382, p. 507, p. 581, p. 607, p. 685, p. 754.
• Ornithological gazetteer of Peru / Lorain Stephens and Melvin A. Traylor, Jr. Cambridge, Mass.: Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1983. url p. 31.
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• Postilla. 1956 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 6.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 190.
• Proceedings of the International Ornithological Congress. [Canberra, etc.]Australian Academy of Science [etc.] url p. 443, p. 444, p. 476.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 287, p. 503, p. 506, p. 560, p. 577, p. 59, p. 597, p. 644.
• Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement. Leyden, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. url p. 197, p. 343.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 150 1965 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 206, p. 410, p. 610, p. 627.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 124, p. 320, p. 416.
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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Myiozetetes similis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 11, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 7 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 11, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2615
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-712675
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2496811
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 561364
• IUCN ID: 224949
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 138679

Footnotes

1. Mean = 955.130 meters (3,133.629 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,141.140 based on 7,321 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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