Southern chestnut-tailed antbird

The southern chestnut-tailed antbird (Sciaphylax hemimelaena) is a species of passerine bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in the Amazon Rainforest in far southern Colombia, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and western and central Brazil.

Southern chestnut-tailed antbird
At Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Sciaphylax
Species:
S. hemimelaena
Binomial name
Sciaphylax hemimelaena
(Sclater, PL, 1857)

The southern chestnut-tailed antbird was originally described by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1857 and given the binomial name Myrmeciza emimelaena.[2] A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that the genus Myrmeciza, as then defined, was polyphyletic.[3] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera the southern chestnut-tailed antbird and the northern chestnut-tailed antbird were moved to a newly erected genus Sciaphylax.[4]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Sciaphylax hemimelaena". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22733838A95066516. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22733838A95066516.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. Sclater, Philip Lutley (1857). "Characters of some apparently new species of American Ant-Thrushes". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 25: 46–48 [48]. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1857.tb01195.x.
  3. 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.
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 30 January 2018.


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