Syndactyla

Syndactyla
Buff-browed foliage-gleaner (Syndactyla rufosuperciliata)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Furnariidae
Genus:	Syndactyla Reichenbach, 1853
Type species
Xenops rufosuperciliatus Buff-browed foliage-gleaner Lafresnaye, 1832
Species
See text

Syndactyla is a genus of foliage-gleaners, birds in the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It now includes the two recurvebills.

The recurvebills are restricted to humid forests in the South American countries of Bolivia, Peru and Brazil. Their common name refers to the peculiar bill-shape, which, at least in the case of the larger-billed Peruvian recurvebill, is an adaption for manipulating bamboo stems. Both species are overall rufescent brown. The SACC reclassified the recurvebills from the genus Simoxenops to Syndactyla based on studies from Dewberry (2011).

Taxonomy

The genus Syndactyla was introduced in 1853 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach to accommodate the buff-browed foliage-gleaner. ^{[1] [2]} The name comes from Ancient Greek σύν (sún), meaning "together", and δάκτυλος (dáktulos), meaning "finger". ^[3] Members of this genus are most closely related to the foliage-gleaners in the genus Anabacerthia . ^{[4] [5]} The recurvebills, S. ucayalae and S. striata, were formerly placed in their own genus Simoxenops, ^[4] and S. roraimae was formerly placed in the genus Automolus . ^[6]

Species

The genus contains eight species: ^[7]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Syndactyla rufosuperciliata	Buff-browed foliage-gleaner	eastern foothills of Central Andes ; also southern Atlantic forest, northeastern Argentina and Uruguay
	Syndactyla dimidiata	Planalto foliage-gleaner	Brazil
	Syndactyla roraimae	Tepui foliage-gleaner	tepuis
-	Syndactyla subalaris	Lineated foliage-gleaner	northern Andes
	Syndactyla ruficollis	Rufous-necked foliage-gleaner	southern Ecuador and northern Peru
-	Syndactyla guttulata	Guttulate foliage-gleaner	Venezuelan Coastal Range
	Syndactyla ucayalae	Peruvian recurvebill	southeastern Peru and sparsely present across Amazonia
-	Syndactyla striata	Bolivian recurvebill	Yungas

References

1. Reichenbach, Ludwig (1853). "Icones ad synopsin avium No. 10 Scansoriae A". Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie (in German). Dresden und Leipzig: Expedition Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. pp. 145–218 [171].
2. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1951). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 124.
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 376. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. Derryberry, Elizabeth P.; Claramunt, Santiago; Derryberry, Graham; Chesser, R. Terry; Cracraft, Joel; Aleixo, Alexandre; Pérez-Emán, Jorge; Remsen Jr., J. V.; Brumfield, Robb T. (2011). "Lineage diversification and morphological evolution in a large-scale continental radiation: the neotropical ovenbirds and woodcreepers (Aves: Furnariidae): diversification of a continental radiation" . Evolution. 65 (10): 2973–2986. Bibcode:2011Evolu..65.2973D. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01374.x. PMID   21967436. S2CID   25163221.
5. Harvey, M.G.; et al. (2020). "The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot". Science. 370 (6522): 1343–1348. Bibcode:2020Sci...370.1343H. doi:10.1126/science.aaz6970. hdl: 10138/329703 . PMID   33303617. S2CID   228084618. A high resolution version of the phylogenetic tree in Figure 1 is available from the first author's website here.
6. Zimmer, K.J.; Robbins, M.B.; Kopuchian, C. (2008). "Taxonomy, vocalisations, syringeal morphology and natural history of Automolus roraimae (Furnariidae)". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 128: 187–206.
7. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Ovenbirds, woodcreepers". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 June 2021.

Bibliography

• Remsen, J. V. 2003. Simoxenops ucayalae & S. striatus (Peruvian & Bolivian Recurvebill). Pp. 331 in: del Hoyo, J., A. Alliott, & D. A. Christie. eds. 2003. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Broadbills to Tapaculos. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ISBN   84-87334-50-4
• DERRYBERRY, E., S. CLARAMUNT, G. DERRYBERRY, R. T. CHESSER, J. CRACRAFT, A. ALEIXO, J. PÉREZ-ÉMAN, J. V. REMSEN, JR., & R. T. BRUMFIELD. 2011. Lineage diversification and morphological evolution in a large-scale continental radiation: the Neotropical ovenbirds and woodcreepers (Aves: Furnariidae). Evolution 65: 2973–2986.