Myiopagis
{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Myiopagis
| image = Myiopagis cotta.jpg
| image_caption = Jamaican elaenia (Myiopagis cotta)
| taxon = Myiopagis
| authority = Salvin & Godman, 1888
| type_species = Elainea placens{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=107 |title= Tyrannidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}
| type_species_authority = Sclater, 1859
}}
Myiopagis is a genus of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. These species are closely related to the genus Elaenia but are generally smaller.
The genus contains the following 9 species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Tyrant flycatchers | work=World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/flycatchers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=27 June 2019 }}
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Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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File:Myiopagis caniceps.jpeg | Myiopagis caniceps | Gray-headed elaenia | from southeast Brazil to Bolivia, Paraguay, and northern Argentina |
Myiopagis parambae | Choco elaenia | from eastern Panama to northwestern Ecuador | |
120px | Myiopagis cinerea | Amazonian elaenia | Amazonia from eastern Colombia and southern Venezuela, to eastern Ecuador, northeastern Peru, and northwestern Brazil |
120px | Myiopagis cotta | Jamaican elaenia | Jamaica |
120px | Myiopagis flavivertex | Yellow-crowned elaenia | Colombia, Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador and Peru. |
120px | Myiopagis gaimardii | Forest elaenia | from Panama through Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas to Bolivia and Brazil. |
120px | Myiopagis olallai | Foothill elaenia | Ecuador and Peru. |
120px | Myiopagis subplacens | Pacific elaenia | Ecuador and Peru. |
120px | Myiopagis viridicata | Greenish elaenia | Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the United States, and Venezuela. |
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Category:Taxa named by Osbert Salvin
Category:Taxa named by Frederick DuCane Godman
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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