Biology:Hafferia

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Short description: Genus of birds

Hafferia
Zeledon's antbird (M).jpg
Zeledon's antbird (Hafferia zeledoni)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Hafferia
Isler, ML, Bravo & Brumfield, 2013
Type species
Thamnophilus immaculatus
Lafresnaye, 1845

Hafferia is a genus of insectivorous passerine birds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae.

The genus contains three species:[1]

These species were formerly included in the genus Myrmeciza. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Myrmeciza, as then defined, was polyphyletic.[2] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera these three species were moved to the newly erected genus Hafferia with the blue-lored antbird as the type species.[1] The name of the new genus was chosen to commemorate the German ornithologist Jürgen Haffer.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2018). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/antbirds/. Retrieved 30 January 2018. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Isler, M.L.; Bravo, G.A.; Brumfield, R.T. (2013). "Taxonomic revision of Myrmeciza (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) into 12 genera based on phylogenetic, morphological, behavioral, and ecological data". Zootaxa 3717 (4): 469–497. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3717.4.3. PMID 26176119. http://www.museum.lsu.edu/Bravo/Publications_files/Zootaxa%202013%20Isler.pdf. 

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