Sakesphorus

Sakesphorus
Female black-crested antshrike
Female glossy antshrike
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thamnophilidae
Genus:	Sakesphorus Chubb, 1918
Type species
Lanius canadensis Linnaeus, 1766
Species
2, see text

Sakesphorus is a genus of passerine birds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae.

The genus Sakesphorus was erected by the British ornithologist Charles Chubb in 1918 with the black-crested antshrike as the type species. ^[1] The name of genus is from the Ancient Greek sakesphoros "shield-bearing", from sakos "shield" and -phoros "-bearing". ^[2]

The genus contains the following species: ^[3]

• Black-crested antshrike (Sakesphorus canadensis)
• Glossy antshrike (Sakesphorus luctuosus)

References

1. Chubb, Charles (1918). "Descriptions of new genera and a new subspecies of South American birds". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. series 9. 2 (7): 122–124 [123]. doi:10.1080/00222931808562350.
2. Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 February 2018.

Further reading

• Brumfield, R.T.; Edwards, S.V. (2007). "Evolution into and out of the Andes: a Bayesian analysis of historical diversification in Thamnophilus antshrikes". Evolution. 61 (2): 346–367. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00039.x. PMID   17348945.