The Sierra de Lema flycatcher or Tepui flycatcher (Mionectes roraimae) is a species of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. It is found in highland areas, including the table-top mountains (tepui), of southern Venezuela and the neighbouring parts of Brazil and Guiana. Its natural habitats are moist montane forests.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Tyrannidae |
| Genus: | Mionectes |
| Species: | M. roraimae
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| Mionectes roraimae (Chubb, C, 1919)
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The Sierra de Lema flycatcher was described by the English ornithologist Charles Chubb in 1919 as a subspecies of the ochre-bellied flycatcher. He coined the trinomial name Pipromorpha oleaginea roraimae and specified the type location as Mount Roraima in the southeastern corner of Venezuela.[2] The specific epithet roraimae is a Latinized form of Mount Roraima.[3] It was treated as a subspecies of McConnell's flycatcher (Mionectes macconnelli) by the American ornithologist Clyde Todd in 1921.[4] It was split from the McConnell's flycatcher based on a study published in 2014 that showed that the two taxa differed in habitat choice, vocalization and display behaviour.[5][6]
References edit
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Sierra de Lema Flycatcher". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
- ^ Chubb, Charles (1919). "New forms of South-American birds". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 9. 4: 301-304 [303].
- ^ Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "roraimae". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
- ^ Todd, W. E. Clyde (1921). "Studies in the Tyrannidae. I. A revision of the genus Pipromorpha". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 34: 173–192.
- ^ Hilty, S.L.; Ascanio, D. (2014). "McConnell's Flycatcher Mionectes macconnelli is more than one species" (PDF). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 134 (4): 270–279.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
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