Plain-crowned spinetail

The plain-crowned spinetail (Synallaxis gujanensis) is a species of bird in the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Plain-crowned spinetail
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Furnariidae
Genus: Synallaxis
Species:
S. gujanensis
Binomial name
Synallaxis gujanensis
(Gmelin, JF, 1789)

Taxonomy

The plain-crowned spinetail was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the wagtails in the genus Motacilla and coined the binomial name Motacilla gujanensis.[2][3] Gmelin based his description on "Le rouge-queue de la Guyanne" that had been described and illustrated in 1778 by the French polymath, the Comte de Buffon.[4][5] The specific epithet gujanensis is from the type locality, the Guianas.[6] The plain-crowned spinetail is now one of 36 spinetails placed in the genus Synallaxis that was introduced in 1818 by Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot.[7][8]

Six subspecies are recognised:[8]

  • S. g. columbiana Chapman, 1914 – east Colombia
  • S. g. gujanensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) – east, south Venezuela through the Guianas to north, east Brazil
  • S. g. huallagae Cory, 1919 – southeast Colombia and east Ecuador through east Peru to north Bolivia
  • S. g. canipileus Chapman, 1923 – southeast Peru
  • S. g. inornata Pelzeln, 1856 – northeast Bolivia and central west Brazil
  • S. g. certhiola Todd, 1916 – east Bolivia

References
  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Synallaxis gujanensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22702354A93870841. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22702354A93870841.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. Gmelin, Johann Friedrich (1789). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 2 (13th ed.). Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Georg. Emanuel. Beer.
  3. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1951). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 87.
  4. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1778). "Le rouge-queue de la Guyanne". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 5. Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale. p. 186.
  5. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de; Martinet, François-Nicolas; Daubenton, Edme-Louis; Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "Le rouge-queue de Cayenne". Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle. Vol. 7. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. Plate 686, Fig. 2.
  6. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 181. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  7. Vieillot, Louis Jean Pierre (1818). Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc (in French). Vol. 24 (Nouvelle édition ed.). Paris: Deterville. p. 117.
  8. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2023). "Ovenbirds, woodcreepers". IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 13 March 2023.


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