Hylophilus decurtatus

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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: 1,400 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,031 meters (0 to 16,506 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   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Hylophilus decurtatus (Bonaparte, 1838)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Bonaparte, Carlo Luciano Nuovi Annal. Sci. Natur. (Bologna), 1: 391-393., 1838.

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Hylophilus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 22 species and subspecies in this genus:

H. amaurocephalus (Gray-Eyed Greenlet) · H. aurantiifrons (Golden-Fronted Greenlet) · H. brunneiceps (Brown-Headed Greenlet) · H. decurtatus (Grey-Headed Greenlet) · H. decurtatus decurtatus (Grey-Headed Greenlet) · H. flavipes (Scrub Greenlet) · H. flavipes flavipes (Scrub Greenlet) · H. hypoxanthus (Dusky-Capped Greenlet) · H. hypoxanthus hypoxanthus (Dusky-Capped Greenlet) · H. muscicapinus (Buff-Chested Greenlet) · H. muscicapinus muscicapinus (Buff-Chested Greenlet) · H. ochraceiceps (Tawny-Crowned Greenlet) · H. ochraceiceps ochraceiceps (Tawny-Crowned Greenlet) · H. olivaceus (Olivaceous Greenlet) · H. pectoralis (Ashy-Headed Greenlet) · H. poicilotis (Rufous-Crowned Greenlet) · H. poicilotis poicilotis (Rufous-Crowned Greenlet) · H. sclateri (Tepu? Greenlet) · H. semibrunneus (Rufous-Naped Greenlet) · H. semicinereus (Gray-Chested Greenlet) · H. thoracicus (Lemon-Chested Greenlet) · H. thoracicus thoracicus (Lemon-Chested Greenlet)

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Further Reading

• A manual of North American birds by Robert Ridgway. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1887. url .
• A manual of North American birds. By Robert Ridgway. Illustrated by 464 outline drawings of the generic characters. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. url .
• A manual of North American birds. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1900. url p. 479.
• Biologia centrali-americana: Aves / [London: R.H. Porter], 1879-1904. url , .
• Bird lice from the Tinamidae. 24 1943 Chicago, 1943. url p. 395.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 109, p. 324, p. 37.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1955 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 240, p. 302, p. 336.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 103 1950 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 355.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1935 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1935. url p. 183, p. 185.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 307.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. url p. 372.
• Check-list of North American birds, New York, American Ornithologists' Union, 1895. url .
• 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. 599.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 137.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 298, p. 299, p. 311, p. 313, p. 314, p. 434, p. 435.
• Journal of morphology. Boston: Ginn & Co., [1887-1924] url p. 280.
• Postilla. 1968 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 37.
• Proceedings of the New England Zoo?logical Club. [Cambridge, Mass.]: The Club, 1899- url p. 109, p. 109, p. 59, p. 59.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url , p. 308, p. 391, p. 487, p. 579, p. 623, p. 639, p. 70.
• Supplement to the code of nomenclature and check-list of North American birds. adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union; prepared by a Committee of the Union. New York: The Union, 1889-1920. url p. 354.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 354.
• The birds of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other island Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1901- url .
• The code of nomenclature and check-list of North American birds adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union; being the report of the Committee of the Union on Classification and Nomenclature. New York, 1886. url p. 355, p. 355, p. 355.
• Variation in the jaw musculature of the avian family Vireonidae / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1981. url p. 16, p. 32, p. 9.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Hylophilus decurtatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
• 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 & 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 06, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 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 06, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• 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: 3842
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-560519
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13847360
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 560519
• IUCN ID: 215253
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 130788

Footnotes

1. Mean = 682.280 meters (2,238.451 feet), Standard Deviation = 869.200 based on 47,389 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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