| Spix's Woodcreeper | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Furnariidae |
| Subfamily: | Dendrocolaptinae |
| Tribe: | Dendrocolaptini |
| Genus: | Xiphorhynchus |
| Species: | X. spixii |
| Binomial name | |
| Xiphorhynchus spixii (Lesson, 1830) |
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The Spix's Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus spixii) is a species of bird in the woodcreeper subfamily (Dendrocolaptinae). The Elegant Woodcreeper was previously considered a subspecies of the Spix's Woodcreeper. As presently defined, Spix's Woodcreeper is monotypic and endemic to humid lowland forest in the eastern Amazon of Brazil.