- Warbling Antbird
Taxobox
name = Warbling Antbird
regnum =Animalia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Aves
ordo =Passeriformes
familia =Thamnophilidae
genus = "Hypocnemis "The Warbling Antbird is a complex consisting of six
species that until recently were considered a single species found throughout the Amazon inSouth America . Based on vocal differences and to a lesser degree differences inplumage s it has been recommended treating them as separate species:*
Guianan Warbling Antbird ("Hypocnemis cantator").
*Imeri Warbling Antbird ("Hypocnemis flavescens").
*Peruvian Warbling Antbird ("Hypocnemis peruviana").
*Yellow-breasted Warbling Antbird ("Hypocnemis subflava").
*Rondonia Warbling Antbird ("Hypocnemis ochrogyna").
*Spix's Warbling Antbird ("Hypocnemis striata").References
* Isler, Isler, & Whitney. 2007. "Species limits in antbirds (Thamnophilidae): The Warbling Antbird (Hypocnemis cantator) complex." The Auk. 124(1): 11-28.
* Zimmer & Isler. 2003. Hypocnemis cantator (Warbling Antbird). Pp. 645 in del Hoyo, Elliott, & Christie. 2003. "Handbook of the Birds of the World." Vol. 8. Broadbills to Tapaculos. Lynx Edictions. Barcelona.
* [http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop299.html Split Hypocnemis cantator by elevating H. flavescens, peruviana, subflava, ochrogyna and striata to species rank.] South American Classification Committee. Accessed2008-06-27
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