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Myrmeciza 
The Immaculate Antbird ("M." immaculata)
probably does not belong in this genusScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Thamnophilidae Genus: Myrmeciza
Gray, 1841Type species Drymophila longipes
Swainson, 1825Species Presently 20, but see text
Myrmeciza is a perching bird genus in the family Thamnophilidae. About 20 species have been placed here in recent times, but thus delimited the "genus" is almost certainly not monophyletic.
The species apparently form several discrete groups, at least one of which does certainly not belong here. One seems to be closer to some other genera than to the core of the present genus, but the exact affiliations of the third group as well as some others (including the type species M. longipes) are not robustly resolved.
The species and their groups are:
- Chestnut-tailed group (Pithyini)
- (Southern) Chestnut-tailed Antbird, Myrmeciza hemimelaena
- Northern Chestnut-tailed Antbird or Zimmer's Antbird, Myrmeciza castanea
- Large dark group (close to Pyriglena)
- Plumbeous Antbird, Myrmeciza hyperythra
- Goeldi's Antbird, Myrmeciza goeldii
- White-shouldered Antbird, Myrmeciza melanoceps
- Sooty Antbird, Myrmeciza fortis
- Immaculate Antbird, Myrmeciza immaculata
- Patterned breast group (close to Hypocnemoides and Hylophylax)
- Ferruginous-backed Antbird, Myrmeciza ferruginea
- Scalloped Antbird, Myrmeciza ruficauda
- White-bibbed Antbird, Myrmeciza loricata
- Squamate Antbird, Myrmeciza squamosa
- Grey-headed group
- Grey-headed Antbird, Myrmeciza griseiceps
- Dull-mantled Antbird, Myrmeciza laemosticta
- Esmeraldas Antbird, Myrmeciza nigricauda
- Stub-tailed Antbird, Myrmeciza berlepschi
- unassigned
- Yapacana Antbird, Myrmeciza disjuncta
- White-bellied Antbird, Myrmeciza longipes (patterned breast group?)
- Chestnut-backed Antbird, Myrmeciza exsul (large dark group? grey-headed group?)
- Gray-bellied Antbird, Myrmeciza pelzelni
- Black-throated Antbird, Myrmeciza atrothorax
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