Black-chested tyrant | |
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Male at Carajás National Forest, Pará state, Brazil | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Tyrannidae |
Genus: | Taeniotriccus Berlepsch & Hartert, 1902 |
Species: | T. andrei
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Binomial name | |
Taeniotriccus andrei | |
Synonyms | |
The black-chested tyrant (Taeniotriccus andrei) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. It is found in Brazil, Suriname, and Venezuela. It is placed in the monotypic genus Taeniotriccus by most ornithologists,[2] although it has formerly been in the genus Poecilotriccus.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.