Biology:Grey-bellied antbird

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Short description: Species of bird

Grey-bellied antbird
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Ammonastes
Bravo, Isler, ML & Brumfield, 2013
Species:
A. pelzelni
Binomial name
Ammonastes pelzelni
(Sclater, PL, 1890)
Ammonastes pelzelni map.svg
Synonyms

Myrmeciza pelzelni

The grey-bellied antbird (Ammonastes pelzelni) is a species of passerine bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in the northwestern Amazon Basin. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

The grey-bellied antbird was originally described by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1890 and given the binomial name Myrmeciza pelzelni.[2] The specific epithet was chosen to honour the Austrian ornithologist August von Pelzeln (1825–1891).[3] A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that the genus Myrmeciza was polyphyletic.[4] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera the grey-bellied antbird was moved to its own genus Ammonastes.[5] The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek words ammos "sand" and nastes "inhabitant" as the grey-bellied antbird occurs in vegetation growing on sandy soil.[4]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q597274 entry