Chamaeza

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Chamaeza
Chamaeza nobilis.jpg
Striated antthrush (Chamaeza nobilis)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Formicariidae
Genus: Chamaeza
Vigors, 1825
Type species
Chamaeza campanisona

Chamaeza is a genus of South American birds in the family Formicariidae.

The genus was erected by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825 with the cryptic antthrush (Chamaeza meruloides) as the type species.[1]

Species[]

The genus contains six species:[2]

Image Common Name Scientific name Distribution
Chamaeza campanisona - Short-tailed anttrush.jpg Short-tailed antthrush Chamaeza campanisona Atlantic Forest in eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina
Chamaeza nobilis.jpg Striated antthrush Chamaeza nobilis Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Chamaeza meruloides - Such's Anttrush; Iporanga, São Paulo, Brazil.jpg Cryptic antthrush Chamaeza meruloides southeastern Brazil.
Chamaeza ruficauda - Rufous-tailed anttrush.jpg Rufous-tailed antthrush Chamaeza ruficauda Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil and far northeastern Argentina (only Misiones Province)
Schwartz's antthrush Chamaeza turdina Andes of Colombia and the Coastal Range in Venezuela.
Barred antthrush Chamaeza mollissima Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

References[]

  1. ^ Vigors, Nicholas Aylward (1825). "Sketches in ornithology; or, observations on the leading affinities of some extensive groups of birds". Zoological Journal. 2: 368–405 [395].
  2. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Antthrushes, antpittas, gnateaters, tapaculos, crescentchests". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 18 February 2018.


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