Fluvicola

Fluvicola is a genus of birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

Fluvicola
Masked water tyrant Fluvicola nengeta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Tyrannidae
Genus:	Fluvicola Swainson, 1827
Type species
Fluvicola cursoria[1] = Lanius nengeta Swainson, 1832

The genus was introduced by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1827.^[2] He designated the type species as the masked water tyrant (Fluvicola nengeta) in 1831.^[3][4] The genus name is derived from a combination of Latin fluvius meaning "river" and -cola meaning "dweller".^[5]

Species

The genus contains the following three species:^[6]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Fluvicola pica	Pied water tyrant	from Panama and Trinidad south to Bolivia and Argentina.
	Fluvicola albiventer	Black-backed water tyrant	central and northeastern Brazil and south through Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina and Uruguay; also eastern Peru
	Fluvicola nengeta	Masked water tyrant	eastern and southeastern Brazil, western Ecuador, and coastal border regions of northwest Peru