Biology:White-shouldered fire-eye

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Short description: Species of bird

White-shouldered fire-eye
Pyriglena leucoptera -Parque Estadual da Serra da Cantareira, Sao Paulo, Brazil -male-8.jpg
Male in São Paulo, Brazil
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Pyriglena
Species:
P. leucoptera
Binomial name
Pyriglena leucoptera
(Vieillot, 1818)
Pyriglena leucoptera map.svg

The white-shouldered fire-eye (Pyriglena leucoptera) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is mainly found in the Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil and eastern Paraguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

The white-shouldered fire-eye was described by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1818 and given the binomial name Turdus leucopterus.[2] The specific name is from the Ancient Greek leukopteros meaning "white-winged".[3] The current genus Pyriglena was introduced by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1847.[4] The species is monotypic.[5]

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External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1266101 entry