Short-tailed Pygmy-Tyrant

SCI Name:  Myiornis ecaudatus
Protonym:  T[odirostrum] ecaudatum Mag.Zool. 7 cl.2 p.47
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Myiornis
Taxonomy Code:  stptyr1
Type Locality:  Yuracares, Bolivia.
Author:  d''Orbigny & Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MYIORNIS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Eared Pygmy Tyrant M. auricularis) Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "No. 79: Euscarthmus minutus W. Bertoni (sp. n.)  (Myiornis?) — guar.: jénero Tatshuri." (Bertoni 1901); "Myiornis Bertoni, 1901, Aves Nuevas Paraguay, p. 129. Type, by monotypy, Euscarthmus minutus Bertoni = Platyrhynchos auricularis Vieillot." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 71).
Synon. Notorchilus, Perissotriccus.
● (syn. Cyanophaia Ϯ Blue-headed Hummingbird C. bicolor) "Die eine, mit geradem Schnabel, nennt man Fliegenvögel, (Myiornis, Ornismyia!!, Orthorhynchus,) weil zu ihr die kleinsten Arten gehören." (Gloger 1842).

ecaudata / ecaudatum / ecaudatus / ecaudotus
Mod. L. ecaudatus  tail-less, lacking a tail  < L. ex-  lacking, not; -caudatus  -tailed  < cauda  tail.
● ex “Bateleur” of Levaillant 1796, pl. 7 (Terathopius).
● ex “Dusky Rail” of Latham 1785 (syn. Zapornia sandwichensis).

SUBSPECIES

Short-tailed Pygmy-Tyrant (miserabilis)
SCI Name: Myiornis ecaudatus miserabilis
miserabilis
L. miserabilis miserable, wretched, mournful < miserari to bewail < miser wretched.

Short-tailed Pygmy-Tyrant (ecaudatus)
SCI Name: Myiornis ecaudatus ecaudatus
ecaudata / ecaudatum / ecaudatus / ecaudotus
Mod. L. ecaudatus  tail-less, lacking a tail  < L. ex-  lacking, not; -caudatus  -tailed  < cauda  tail.
● ex “Bateleur” of Levaillant 1796, pl. 7 (Terathopius).
● ex “Dusky Rail” of Latham 1785 (syn. Zapornia sandwichensis).