White-shouldered antbird | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thamnophilidae |
Genus: | Akletos |
Species: | A. melanoceps |
Binomial name | |
Akletos melanoceps (Spix, 1825) | |
Synonyms | |
Myrmeciza melanoceps |
The white-shouldered antbird (Akletos melanoceps) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical swamps.
The white-shouldered antbird was described and illustrated by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix in 1825 and given the binomial name Thamnophilus melanoceps. [2] It was subsequently moved to the genus Myrmeciza . A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Myrmeciza was polyphyletic. [3] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera this species was moved to the resurrected genus Akletos which had been introduced by the Polish ornithologist Andrzej Dunajewski in 1948. [4] [5] [6]
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