Biology:Northern chestnut-tailed antbird
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thamnophilidae |
| Genus: | Sciaphylax |
| Species: | S. castanea
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| Sciaphylax castanea (Zimmer, JT, 1932)
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The northern chestnut-tailed antbird (Sciaphylax castanea) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in the Amazon Rainforest in northeastern Peru and far eastern Ecuador.
The northern chestnut-tailed antbird was originally described by the American ornithologist John Zimmer in 1932 as a subspecies of the southern chestnut-tailed antbird with the trinomial name Myrmeciza hemimelaena castanea.[2] A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that the genus Myrmeciza, as then defined, was polyphyletic.[3] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera the northern chestnut-tailed antbird and the southern chestnut-tailed antbird were moved to a newly erected genus Sciaphylax.[4]
Description
Sciaphylax castanea is 11–12 cm in length and weighs 16–17 grams.[5] It is similar to its congener Sciaphylax hemimelaena, but differentiated by their vocalisations. The tail is short. The male has a dark gray head and neck and reddish-brown upper parts, the wing coverts are blackish with white or yellowish-brown tips, the tail is rufous-brown; the throat and breast are black with gray and brown on the sides and flanks, the midribs are white. The female is similar to the male, but paler; the throat and breast are chestnut to rufous orange, the belly is white tinged with yellowish brown.[6]
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Sciaphylax castanea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22733153A95054886. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22733153A95054886.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22733153/95054886. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ↑ Zimmer, John Todd (1932). Studies of Peruvian birds. 6, The formicarian genera Myrmoborus and Myrmeciza in Peru. American Museum Novitates. New York: American Museum of Natural History. pp. 1–24 [23]. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/4198.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2017). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/antbirds/.
- ↑ Northern Chestnut-tailed Antbird (Sciaphylax castanea) en Handbook of the Birds of the World - Alive (en inglés). Consultada el 29 de abril de 2017.
- ↑ Template:Versalita. 2009. Myrmeciza castanea y Myrmeciza hemimelaena, p. 365, lámina 31(8), en Field guide to the songbirds of South America: the passerines – Template:Ord edición – (Mildred Wyatt-World series in ornithology). University of Texas Press, Austin (en inglés). ISBN 978-0-292-71748-0
Wikidata ☰ Q1265391 entry
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