Biology:Rhegmatorhina
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Short description: Genus of birds
| Rhegmatorhina | |
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| Hairy-crested antbird (Rhegmatorhina melanosticta) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thamnophilidae |
| Genus: | Rhegmatorhina Ridgway, 1888 |
| Type species | |
| Rhegmatorhina gymnops[1] Ridgway, 1888
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Rhegmatorhina is a genus of insectivorous passerine birds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae.
The genus was introduced by the American ornithologist Robert Ridgway in 1888 with the bare-eyed antbird (Rhegmatorhina gymnops) as the type species.[2] The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek words rhēgma, rhēgmatos for "fissure" or "cleft" and rhis, rhinos for "nostril".[3]
The genus contains the following species:[4]
- Bare-eyed antbird (Rhegmatorhina gymnops)
- Harlequin antbird (Rhegmatorhina berlepschi)
- White-breasted antbird (Rhegmatorhina hoffmannsi)
- Chestnut-crested antbird (Rhegmatorhina cristata)
- Hairy-crested antbird (Rhegmatorhina melanosticta)
These species are specialist ant-followers that depend upon swarms of army ants to flush insects and other arthropods out of the leaf litter.[5][6]
References
- ↑ "Thamnophilidae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=108.
- ↑ Ridgway, Robert (1887). "Descriptions of new species and genera of birds from the Lower Amazon". Proceedings of the United States National Museum: 516–528 [525]. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7485705. Although the title page gives the year as 1887, the volume was not published until 1888.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 334. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2018). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/antbirds/. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ↑ Zimmer, K.; Isler, M.L. (2018). "Typical Antbirds (Thamnophilidae)". in del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. et al.. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. https://www.hbw.com/node/52291. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- ↑ Willis, Edwin O. (1969). "On the behavior of five species of Rhegmatorhina, ant-following antbirds of the Amazon basin". Wilson Bulletin 81: 362–395. https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wilson/v081n04/p0363-p0395.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q631964 entry
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