Sciaphylax | |
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Male southern chestnut-tailed antbird (Sciaphylax hemimelaena) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thamnophilidae |
Genus: | Sciaphylax Bravo, Isler, ML & Brumfield, 2013 |
Type species | |
Myrmeciza hemimelaena Sclater, 1857 |
Sciaphylax is a genus of passerine birds in the family Thamnophilidae.
The genus contains two species: [1]
These species were formerly included in the genus Myrmeciza . A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Myrmeciza was polyphyletic. [2] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera, the two chestnut-tailed antbirds was moved to a newly erected genus Sciaphylax. The type species is the southern chestnut-tailed antbird. [1] The name of the new genus combines the Ancient Greek words skia "shadow" and phylax "a watcher". [2]
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