Mouse-colored Thistletail Asthenes griseomurina Scientific name definitions
- LC Least Concern
- Names (20)
- Monotypic
Thomas S. Schulenberg and Tom Johnson
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated June 10, 2011
Text last updated June 10, 2011
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Catalan | cisteller murí |
| Dutch | Grijze Distelstaart |
| English | Mouse-colored Thistletail |
| English (UK) | Mouse-coloured Thistletail |
| English (United States) | Mouse-colored Thistletail |
| French | Synallaxe souris |
| French (France) | Synallaxe souris |
| German | Olivrückencanastero |
| Japanese | ネズミトゲオカマドドリ |
| Norwegian | umbratistelstjert |
| Polish | koszykarz mysi |
| Russian | Мышиный чертополошник |
| Slovak | košikárik myšací |
| Spanish | Piscuiz Ratón |
| Spanish (Ecuador) | Colicardo Murino |
| Spanish (Peru) | Cola-Cardo Murino |
| Spanish (Spain) | Piscuiz ratón |
| Swedish | umbraborststjärt |
| Turkish | Fare Renkli Sepetören |
| Ukrainian | Корпуана еквадорська |
Asthenes griseomurina (Sclater, 1882)
PROTONYM:
Synallaxis griseo-murina
Sclater, 1882. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1882, Part 3, p. 578 pl.43 fig.2.
TYPE LOCALITY:
San Lucas, Ecuador.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- ASTHENES
- griseomurina
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Introduction
The Mouse-colored Thistletail is a high elevation, skulking furnariid with a small range in northwestern South America. It is distributed in a small stretch of Andes in southern Ecuador and northwestern Peru between 2800-4000 m in elevation, where it inhabits the edge of humid montane and elfin forest as well as scrubby Polylepis forest above treeline. Similar in appearance to, but less rufescent than, the closely related White-chinned Thistletail (Asthenes fuliginosa), the Mouse-colored Thistletail is dull olive-brown above with a very long, spike-tipped tail, a white eyering, gray supercilium and underparts, and a small, white chin patch.
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding
Distribution of the Mouse-colored Thistletail
