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Genus of birds
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.[2]
Species
The genus contains six species:[3]
Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Short-tailed antthrush | Chamaeza campanisona | Atlantic Forest in eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina | |
Striated antthrush | Chamaeza nobilis | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. | |
Cryptic antthrush | Chamaeza meruloides | southeastern Brazil. | |
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
- ^ "Formicariidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ^ 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].
- ^ 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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