Snethlage's tody-tyrant
species of bird
Snethlage's tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus minor) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, and possibly Peru.
Taxonomy and systematics
Snethlage's tody-tyrant was originally described as a subspecies, Euscarthmus zosterops minor, of what is now the white-eyed tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus zosterops). It was later accepted as a full species. For a time in the mid-twentieth century several authors placed it in genus Snethlagea, which was later merged into Hemitriccus.
Major taxonomic systems recognize three subspecies of Snethlage's tody-tyrant, the nominate H. m. minor (Snethlage, 1907), H. m. snethlageae (Emil Heinrich Snethlage, 1937), and H. m. pallens (Todd, 1925). One of them, the Clements taxonomy, in addition lists "Hemitriccus minor [undescribed form]" as potentially a new subspecies from within one of the others.
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