Biology:East Amazonian fire-eye

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Short description: Species of bird

East Amazonian fire-eye
Pyriglena leuconota - White-backed fire-eye.JPG
male
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Pyriglena leuconota - White-backed Fire-eye
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Pyriglena
Species:
P. leuconota
Binomial name
Pyriglena leuconota
(von Spix, 1824)
Synonyms

Pyriglena castanoptera Chubb, 1916
Pyriglena pacifica Chapman, 1923

The East Amazonian fire-eye (Pyriglena leuconota) is an insectivorous bird in the antbird family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Brazil . Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Taxonomy

The East Amazonian fire-eye was described and illustrated by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix in 1824 and given the binomial name Myothera leuconota.[2] The current genus Pyriglena was introduced by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1847.[3]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Pyriglena leuconota". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22730396A95027645. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22730396A95027645.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22730396/95027645. Retrieved 12 November 2021. 
  2. ↑ von Spix, Johann Baptist (1824) (in Latin). Avium species novae, quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX. 1. Monachii (Munich): Typis Franc. Seraph. Hübschmanni. p. 72, Plate 72 fig. 2. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47154905. 
  3. ↑ Cabanis, Jean (1847). "Ornithologische notizen" (in German). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 13: 186–256 [211]. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14785181. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1261248 entry




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