Spectacled tyrannulet

Short description: Species of bird

Spectacled tyrannulet

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Aves
Order:  | Passeriformes
Family:  | Tyrannidae
Genus:  | Zimmerius
Species:  |

Z. improbus

Binomial name
Zimmerius improbus

(Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1871)

The spectacled tyrannulet (Zimmerius improbus), also known as specious tyrannulet or mountain tyrannulet, 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

1. ↑ BirdLife International (2017). "Zimmerius improbus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T104008963A112284037. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T104008963A112284037.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/104008963/112284037. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
2. ↑ 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]. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28555745. The volume is dated 1870 but was not published until 1871.
3. ↑ "Proposal (441): Split Zimmerius improbus from Z. vilissimus". South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society. 2010. http://museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop441.htm.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2017). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/flycatchers/.

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