Curve-billed Reedhaunter

Curve-billed Reedhaunter
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Furnariidae
Genus: Limnornis
Gould, 1839
Species: L. curvirostris
Binomial name
Limnornis curvirostris
Gould, 1839

The Curve-billed Reedhaunter (Limnornis curvirostris) is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found marshy areas of north-eastern Argentina, south-eastern Brazil, and Uruguay. It occupies a similar ecological niche to some reed warblers.

The Curve-billed Reedhaunter is placed in the monotypic genus Limnornis. The superficially similar Straight-billed Reedhaunter is sometimes also included in Limnornis, but evidence suggests it is closer to Cranioleuca spinetails than it is to the Curve-billed Reedhaunter.[1]

Additionally, the name Limnornis was also mistakenly given to fossils from Romania, but these remains have since been reclassified as Eurolimnornis and Palaeocursornis

References

  1. ^ Olson, S. L., M. Irestedt, P. G. P. Ericson, & J. Fjeldså. 2005. Independent evolution of two Darwinian marsh-dwelling ovenbirds (Furnariidae: Limnornis, Limnoctites). Ornitologia Neotropical 16: 347-359.