Chotoy spinetail

Chotoy spinetail
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Furnariidae
Genus: Schoeniophylax
Ridgway, 1909
Species: S. phryganophilus
Binomial name
Schoeniophylax phryganophilus
(Vieillot, 1817)
At Arroio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

The chotoy spinetail (Schoeniophylax phryganophilus) is a species of bird in the ovenbird family, the Furnariidae. It belongs to the monotypic genus Schoeniophylax.[2] It is found in Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, regions of northern Argentina, and extreme southern Brazil, including the Pantanal. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland and heavily degraded former forest.[1]

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