Stub-tailed antbird

The stub-tailed antbird (Sipia berlepschi) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Stub-tailed antbird
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Sipia
Species:
S. berlepschi
Binomial name
Sipia berlepschi
(Hartert, 1898)
Synonyms

Myrmeciza berlepschi

The stub-tailed antbird was described by the German ornithologist Ernst Hartert in 1898 and given the binomial name Pyriglena berlepschi. The species was named to honour the German ornithologist Hans von Berlepsch.[2] The species was later placed in the genus Myrmeciza but 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 stub-tailed antbird was moved to a resurrected genus Sipia which had been introduced by the Austrian ornithologist Carl Eduard Hellmayr in 1924.[4][5]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Sipia berlepschi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Hartert, Ernst (1898). "Pyriglena berlepschi". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 7 (50): 29.
  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. Hellmayr, Carl Eduard (1924). "Catalogue of Birds of the Americas and the Adjacent Islands". Field Museum Natural History Publications. Zoological Series. 13 (3). Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History: 224. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 February 2018.


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