Myrmoderus | |
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White-bibbed antbird (Myrmoderus loricatus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thamnophilidae |
Genus: | Myrmoderus Ridgway, 1909 |
Type species | |
Myiothera loricata [1] Lichtenstein, 1823 |
Myrmoderus is a genus of passerine birds in the family Thamnophilidae.
The genus contains five species: [2]
The Cordillera Azul antbird was first described in 2018. [3] The other four species were formerly included in the genus Myrmeciza . A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Myrmeciza, as then defined, was polyphyletic. [4] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera four species were moved to the resurrected genus Myrmoderus. [2] The genus had originally been erected in 1909 by the American ornithologist Robert Ridgway with the white-bibbed antbird as the type species. [5]
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