Biology:Southern chestnut-tailed antbird

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Short description: Species of bird

Southern chestnut-tailed antbird
Sciaphylax hemimelaena1.jpg
At Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Sciaphylax
Species:
S. hemimelaena
Binomial name
Sciaphylax hemimelaena
(Sclater, PL, 1857)
Sciaphylax hemimelaena map.svg

The southern chestnut-tailed antbird (Sciaphylax hemimelaena) is a species of passerine bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in the Amazon Rainforest in far southern Colombia, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and western and central Brazil .

The southern chestnut-tailed antbird was originally described by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1857 and given the binomial name Myrmeciza emimelaena.[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 southern chestnut-tailed antbird and the northern chestnut-tailed antbird were moved to a newly erected genus Sciaphylax.[4]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q557610 entry