Biology:White-shouldered antbird

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Short description: Species of bird

White-shouldered antbird
Akletos melanoceps - White-shouldered Antbird (male); River Moa, Mancio Lima, Acre, Brazil.jpg
Akletos melanoceps - White-shouldered Antbird (female); River Moa, Mancio Lima, Acre, Brazil.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Percnostola
Species:
P. melanoceps
Binomial name
Percnostola melanoceps
(von Spix, 1825)
Akletos melanoceps map.svg
Synonyms

Myrmeciza melanoceps

File:Myrmeciza melanoceps - White-shouldered Antbird XC249463.mp3 The white-shouldered antbird (Percnostola melanoceps) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Brazil , Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical swamps.

The white-shouldered antbird was described and illustrated by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix in 1825 and given the binomial name Thamnophilus melanoceps.[1] It was subsequently moved to the genus Myrmeciza. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Myrmeciza was polyphyletic.[2] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera this species was moved to the resurrected genus Akletos which had been introduced by the Polish ornithologist Andrzej Dunajewski in 1948.[3][4][5]

References

  1. von Spix, Johann Baptist (1825) (in Latin). Avium species novae, quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX. 2. Monachii (Munich): Typis Franc. Seraph. Hübschmanni. p. 28, Plate 39 fig. 1. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41277983. 
  2. 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. 
  3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2017). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/antbirds/. 
  4. Dunajewski, A. (1948). "New races of the Brown Owl, Hedge-Sparrow and a new species of Attila; also a new genus of Cotingidae". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 68: 130–132. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40587906. 
  5. Isler, M.L.; Bravo, G.A.; Brumfield, R.T. (2013). "Inundicola Bravo, Isler, and Brumfield 2013 is a junior synonym of Akletos Dunajewski 1948 (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae)". Zootaxa 3779 (3): 399–400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3779.3.10. PMID 24871736. 

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