Black-tailed antbird

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Black-tailed antbird
Myrmoborus melanurus - Black tailed antbird (male); Iquitos, Peru.jpg
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Myrmoborus
Species:
M. melanurus
Binomial name
Myrmoborus melanurus
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The black-tailed antbird (Myrmoborus melanurus) is a species of antbird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is endemic to Peru and Brazil.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical swamps, which is threatened by habitat loss.

The black-tailed antbird was described by the English ornithologists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin in 1866 and given the binomial name Hypocmenis melanurus. [2]

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Myrmoborus melanurus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T22701726A93846368. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22701726A93846368.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. Sclater, Philip L.; Salvin, Osbert (1866). "Catalogue of birds collected by Mr. E. Bartlett on the River Ucayali, Eastern Peru, with notes and descriptions of new species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (2): 175–201 [186].