Bare-eyed antbird
The bare-eyed antbird (Rhegmatorhina gymnops), occasionally known as the Santarem antbird, is a species of insectivorous passerine bird in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae. It is endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thamnophilidae |
| Genus: | Rhegmatorhina |
| Species: | R. gymnops |
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| Rhegmatorhina gymnops Ridgway, 1888 | |
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The bare-eyed antbird was formally described by the American ornithologist Robert Ridgway in 1888 and given the binomial name Rhegmatorhina gymnops.[2]
This species is a specialist ant-follower that depends upon swarms of army ants to flush insects and other arthropods out of the leaf litter.[3][4]
References
- BirdLife International (2016). "Rhegmatorhina gymnops". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22701907A93854116. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22701907A93854116.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- 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]. Although the title page gives the year as 1887, the volume was not published until 1888.
- Zimmer, K.; Isler, M.L. (2018) [2003]. del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Typical Antbirds (Thamnophilidae)". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- Willis, Edwin O. (1969). "On the behavior of five species of Rhegmatorhina, ant-following antbirds of the Amazon basin" (PDF). Wilson Bulletin. 81: 362–395.
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