Dendroplex

Dendroplex

Straight-billed Woodcreeper
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Furnariidae
Subfamily:	Dendrocolaptinae
Tribe:	Dendrocolaptini
Genus:	Dendroplex Swainson, 1827
Species
Dendroplex kienerii Dendroplex picus

Dendroplex is a genus of bird in the woodcreeper subfamily (Dendrocolaptinae). It was long merged into Xiphorhynchus, but its distinctness was recently validated.^[1]^[2]

It contains the following species:

Straight-billed Woodcreeper, Dendroplex picus
Zimmer's Woodcreeper, Dendroplex kienerii - formerly Xiphorhynchus necopinus

References

^ Aleixo, A., S. M. S. Gregory & J. Penhallurick. 2007. Fixation of the type species and revalidation of the genus Dendroplex Swainson, 1827 (Dendrocolaptidae). Bull. B. O. C. 127: 242-246.
^ Aleixo, A. 2002. Molecular systematics and the role of the "várzea"-"terra-firme" ecotone in the diversification of Xiphorhynchus Woodcreepers (Aves: Dendrocolaptidae). Auk 119: 621-640.