Sooty antbird

The sooty antbird (Hafferia fortis) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.[2]

Sooty antbird
male
female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Hafferia
Species:
H. fortis
Binomial name
Hafferia fortis
Synonyms

Myrmeciza fortis

The sooty antbird was described and illustrated by the English ornithologists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin in 1868 and given the binomial name Percnostola fortis.[3] The species was later included in the genus Myrmeciza. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Myrmeciza was polyphyletic.[4] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera the sooty antbird was moved to the newly erected genus Hafferia.[5]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Hafferia fortis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. "Sooty Antbird (Myrmeciza fortis) - BirdLife species factsheet". www.birdlife.org. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
  3. Sclater, Philip L.; Salvin, Osbert (1867). "List of birds collected at Pebas, Upper Amazons, by Mr. John Hauxwell, with notes and descriptions of new species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (3): 977–981 [980]. The volume is dated 1867 but the issue was published in the following year.
  4. 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" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3717 (4): 469–497. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3717.4.3. PMID 26176119.
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 30 January 2018.

Further reading
  • Cerón-Cardona, J.; Londoño, G.A. (2017). "Nesting biology of the Sooty Antbird (Hafferia fortis) in southeastern Peru". Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 129 (3): 576–585. doi:10.1676/16-020.1. S2CID 90550490.


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