Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Linnaeus, C 1766)

Reference:
   Systema Naturae ed. 12, vol. 1, part 1

Protonym:
  Motacilla petechia

Type locality:
  northern America; restricted to Barbados by Hellmayr, 1935, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 8, p. 376.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/137337#page/338/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  6C439FF4CDC95AA8

Avibase ID:
  avibase-6C439FF4

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/6C439FF4

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 950039

Geographic range:

• Setophaga petechia: breeds coasts (mostly mangroves) from northern Mexico including southern Baja California, Caribbean from Florida keys, northern South America eastward to central Venezuela and southward to far northern Peru, and Cocos and Galapagos islands
• Setophaga petechia petechia: Barbados (Lesser Antilles)
• Setophaga petechia melanoptera: Guadeloupe (including satellite islands) and Dominica (central Lesser Antilles)
• Setophaga petechia babad: St. Lucia (Lesser Antilles)
• Setophaga petechia alsiosa: Grenadines (Lesser Antilles)
• Setophaga petechia rufopileata: Leeward Antilles (Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire), and islas Blanquilla, Margarita, and Los Testigos, off northern Venezuela
• Setophaga petechia obscura: islas Las Aves, Los Roques, and La Orchila, off northern Venezuela
• Setophaga petechia aurifrons: coastal northeastern Venezuela (Anzoátegui and western Sucre) and offshore islands (including Tortuga, Las Tortuguillas, and de Píritu)
• Setophaga petechia rufivertex: eade
• Setophaga petechia flavida: Isla San Andrés (western Caribbean Sea)
• Setophaga petechia armouri: Isla Providencia (western Caribbean Sea)
• Setophaga petechia ruficapilla: Martinique (Lesser Antilles)
• Setophaga petechia albicollis: Hispaniola, including Gonâve and adjacent islands
• Setophaga petechia bartholemica: northern Lesser Antilles to Montserrat and Antigua
• Setophaga petechia cruciana: Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands
• Setophaga petechia eoa: Jamaica and Cayman Islands
• Setophaga petechia gundlachi: lower Florida Keys, Bahamas, and Cuba including Isla de la Juventud
• Setophaga petechia erithachorides: Caribbean coast of Costa Rica to northern Colombia
• Setophaga petechia chrysendeta: northeastern Colombia (Guajira Peninsula) and adjacent northwestern Venezuela (Zulia)
• Setophaga petechia paraguanae: northwestern Venezuela (Paraguaná Peninsula of Falcón)
• Setophaga petechia cienagae: northern Venezuela (coastal Carabobo and Aragua) and islands off Falcón, in northwest Venezuela
• Setophaga petechia [aequatorialis or jubaris]: Pacific coast of Panama (Panamá Province) and Pearl Islands, perhaps this form southward to coastal Chocó
• Setophaga petechia castaneiceps: mangroves of coastal southern Baja California (south of latitude 27°N)
• Setophaga petechia [rhizophorae or phillipsi]: mangroves of northwestern Mexico (Sonora to Nayarit), locally (subspecies?) to southern Chiapas
• Setophaga petechia oraria: mangroves of eastern Mexico (southern Tamaulipas to western Tabasco)
• Setophaga petechia bryanti: Caribbean coast from southeast Mexico (Campeche) southward to southern Nicaragua
• Setophaga petechia [xanthotera, aithocorys or iguanae]: Pacific coast of western Guatemala to Costa Rica
• Setophaga petechia peruviana: southwestern Colombia (Valle del Cauca at least) southward to western Ecuador and northern Peru (Tumbes); perhaps also western Darien, southwestern Panama
• Setophaga petechia aureola: Cocos Island (off Costa Rica) and Galapagos
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