Slager David L, Klicka John
Department of Biology & Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Box 351800, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA; Email:
Department of Biology & Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Box 351800, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA; Email: unknown.
Zootaxa. 2014 Nov 13;3884(2):194-6. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.2.8.
Once a catch-all taxon for various small, greenish passerines (Sclater 1881), today the genus Hylophilus Temminck contains 15 species of Neotropical greenlets in the avian family Vireonidae (Clements et al. 2013). Although Hylophilus species do share some common anatomical proportions and plumage features (Baird 1866; Ridgway 1904), some striking and concordant differences in habitat, voice, and iris color led Ridgely and Tudor (1989) to posit that the genus might contain sufficient diversity to warrant splitting into multiple genera.
绿莺属(Hylophilus)曾是一个用于归类各种小型、绿色雀形目鸟类的笼统分类单元(斯克莱特,1881年),如今它包含15种新热带地区的绿鹃科(Vireonidae)绿莺(克莱门茨等人,2013年)。尽管绿莺属的物种确实有一些共同的解剖比例和羽毛特征(贝尔德,1866年;里德韦,1904年),但在栖息地、鸣声和虹膜颜色方面存在一些显著且一致的差异,这使得里德利和图多尔(1989年)认为该属可能具有足够的多样性,值得划分为多个属。