Chamaeza is a genus of South American birds in the family Formicariidae.
Chamaeza | |
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Striated antthrush (Chamaeza nobilis) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Formicariidae |
Genus: | Chamaeza Vigors, 1825 |
Type species | |
Chamaeza meruloides[1] Vigors, 1825
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The genus was erected by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825 with the cryptic antthrush (Chamaeza meruloides) as the type species.[2]
Species edit
The genus contains six species:[3]
Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Short-tailed antthrush | Chamaeza campanisona | Atlantic Forest in eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina | |
Striated antthrush | Chamaeza nobilis | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. | |
Cryptic antthrush | Chamaeza meruloides | southeastern Brazil. | |
Rufous-tailed antthrush | Chamaeza ruficauda | Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil and far northeastern Argentina (only Misiones Province) | |
Schwartz's antthrush | Chamaeza turdina | Andes of Colombia and the Coastal Range in Venezuela. | |
Barred antthrush | Chamaeza mollissima | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru |
References edit
- ^ "Formicariidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ^ Vigors, Nicholas Aylward (1825). "Sketches in ornithology; or, observations on the leading affinities of some extensive groups of birds". Zoological Journal. 2: 368–405 [395].
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Antthrushes, antpittas, gnateaters, tapaculos, crescentchests". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 18 February 2018.