Southern chestnut-tailed antbird

Southern chestnut-tailed antbird
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Myrmeciza
Species: M. hemimelaena
Binomial name
Myrmeciza hemimelaena
Sclater, 1857[2]

The southern chestnut-tailed antbird (Myrmeciza hemimelaena) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. The Clements taxonomy, Version 2016, however, calls it chestnut-tailed antbird and has updated the scientific name to Sciaphylax hemimelaena.[3] It is found in the Amazon Rainforest in far southern Colombia, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and western and central Brazil.

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Myrmeciza hemimelaena". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. Sclater, Philip Lutley (1857). "Characters of some apparently New Species of American Ant-Thrushes". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 25: 48.
  3. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ retrieved 11 August 2016
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