Mouse-colored Tyrannulet

SCI Name:  Phaeomyias murina
Protonym:  Platyrhynchus murinus Av.Sp.Nov.Brasil. 2 p.14 pl.16 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Phaeomyias
Taxonomy Code:  moctyr1
Type Locality:  Brazil; restricted to Joazeiro [= Juazeiro] , Rio Sao Francisco, northern Bahia, by Pinto, 1944, Cat. Aves Brasil (Publ. Dept. Zool., Sao Paulo), pt. 2, p. 285.
Author:  von Spix
Publish Year:  1825
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

PHAEOMYIAS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Mouse-coloured Tyrannulet P. murina incomta) Gr. φαιος phaios  dusky, brown; Mod. L. myias  flycatcher  < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; πιαζω piazō  to seize; "Phaeomyias* incomta Cab.  ... *Berlepsch having inspected the specimen of "Myiopatis incanescens" in the Museum Heineanum, has satisfied himself that it is = Ornithion cinerascens (Wied), olim O. imberbe Scl.  The other species enumerated by Cabanis & Heine, - viz. M. obsoleta and M. pusilla - also belong to the genus Ornithion Hartl., of which Myiopatis Cab. & Heine thus becomes a synonym. Therefore Myiopatis cannot be used for Ph. incomta and allies, for which Berlepsch proposes the new appellation Phaeomyias (φαιος = fuscus, μυιας = nomen propr.) with the species: 1. Ph. incomta (Cab. & Heine); 2. M. wagae (Tacz.); 3. M. tumbezana (Tacs.)" (von Berlepsch 1902); "Phaeomyias Berlepsch, 1902, Novit. Zool., 9, p. 41. Type, by subsequent designation (Chubb, 1921, Birds British Guiana, 2, p. 177), "P. incompta" [= Elainea incomta] Cabanis and Heine." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 16) (see Nesotriccus).
Var. Chaeomyias.

murina
Mod. L. murinus  mouse-grey  < L. murinus  of mice, mouse-  < mus, muris  mouse.
● ex “Murine Warbler” of Latham 1783 (unident.).

SUBSPECIES

Mouse-colored Tyrannulet (Northern)
SCI Name: Phaeomyias murina incomta/eremonoma
PHAEOMYIAS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Mouse-coloured Tyrannulet P. murina incomta) Gr. φαιος phaios  dusky, brown; Mod. L. myias  flycatcher  < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; πιαζω piazō  to seize; "Phaeomyias* incomta Cab.  ... *Berlepsch having inspected the specimen of "Myiopatis incanescens" in the Museum Heineanum, has satisfied himself that it is = Ornithion cinerascens (Wied), olim O. imberbe Scl.  The other species enumerated by Cabanis & Heine, - viz. M. obsoleta and M. pusilla - also belong to the genus Ornithion Hartl., of which Myiopatis Cab. & Heine thus becomes a synonym. Therefore Myiopatis cannot be used for Ph. incomta and allies, for which Berlepsch proposes the new appellation Phaeomyias (φαιος = fuscus, μυιας = nomen propr.) with the species: 1. Ph. incomta (Cab. & Heine); 2. M. wagae (Tacz.); 3. M. tumbezana (Tacs.)" (von Berlepsch 1902); "Phaeomyias Berlepsch, 1902, Novit. Zool., 9, p. 41. Type, by subsequent designation (Chubb, 1921, Birds British Guiana, 2, p. 177), "P. incompta" [= Elainea incomta] Cabanis and Heine." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 16) (see Nesotriccus).
Var. Chaeomyias.

Mouse-colored Tyrannulet (Amazonian)
SCI Name: Phaeomyias murina murina/wagae
PHAEOMYIAS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Mouse-coloured Tyrannulet P. murina incomta) Gr. φαιος phaios  dusky, brown; Mod. L. myias  flycatcher  < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; πιαζω piazō  to seize; "Phaeomyias* incomta Cab.  ... *Berlepsch having inspected the specimen of "Myiopatis incanescens" in the Museum Heineanum, has satisfied himself that it is = Ornithion cinerascens (Wied), olim O. imberbe Scl.  The other species enumerated by Cabanis & Heine, - viz. M. obsoleta and M. pusilla - also belong to the genus Ornithion Hartl., of which Myiopatis Cab. & Heine thus becomes a synonym. Therefore Myiopatis cannot be used for Ph. incomta and allies, for which Berlepsch proposes the new appellation Phaeomyias (φαιος = fuscus, μυιας = nomen propr.) with the species: 1. Ph. incomta (Cab. & Heine); 2. M. wagae (Tacz.); 3. M. tumbezana (Tacs.)" (von Berlepsch 1902); "Phaeomyias Berlepsch, 1902, Novit. Zool., 9, p. 41. Type, by subsequent designation (Chubb, 1921, Birds British Guiana, 2, p. 177), "P. incompta" [= Elainea incomta] Cabanis and Heine." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 16) (see Nesotriccus).
Var. Chaeomyias.

Mouse-colored Tyrannulet (Tumbes)
SCI Name: Phaeomyias murina tumbezana/inflava
PHAEOMYIAS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Mouse-coloured Tyrannulet P. murina incomta) Gr. φαιος phaios  dusky, brown; Mod. L. myias  flycatcher  < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; πιαζω piazō  to seize; "Phaeomyias* incomta Cab.  ... *Berlepsch having inspected the specimen of "Myiopatis incanescens" in the Museum Heineanum, has satisfied himself that it is = Ornithion cinerascens (Wied), olim O. imberbe Scl.  The other species enumerated by Cabanis & Heine, - viz. M. obsoleta and M. pusilla - also belong to the genus Ornithion Hartl., of which Myiopatis Cab. & Heine thus becomes a synonym. Therefore Myiopatis cannot be used for Ph. incomta and allies, for which Berlepsch proposes the new appellation Phaeomyias (φαιος = fuscus, μυιας = nomen propr.) with the species: 1. Ph. incomta (Cab. & Heine); 2. M. wagae (Tacz.); 3. M. tumbezana (Tacs.)" (von Berlepsch 1902); "Phaeomyias Berlepsch, 1902, Novit. Zool., 9, p. 41. Type, by subsequent designation (Chubb, 1921, Birds British Guiana, 2, p. 177), "P. incompta" [= Elainea incomta] Cabanis and Heine." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 16) (see Nesotriccus).
Var. Chaeomyias.

Mouse-colored Tyrannulet (Marañon)
SCI Name: Phaeomyias murina maranonica
maranonica / smaranonicum / maranonicus
Río Marañón, Peru. The Tupí originally applied the name Maranon to the Rio Parana in Brazil; it was later used of the main Amazon, and is now the name of the upper or Peruvian reaches of that river.