Drymophila

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Drymophila
Ferruginous antbird (Drymophila ferruginea)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Tribe: Pithyini
Genus: Drymophila
Swainson, 1824
Type species
Drymophila variegata[1]
Such, 1824
Species

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Drymophila is a bird genus in the antbird family (Thamnophilidae). It is a relative of the typical antwrens.

The genus Drymophila was introduced by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1824. The Drymophila antbird is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family, known for thriving in a bamboo-rich environment such as South America by utilizing aspects of the bamboo to allow for a food source, shelter, and protection from predators[2] [3] The type species is the ferruginous antbird.[4] The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek words drumos for "wood" or "copse" and philos "fond of".[5]

Taxonomy and systematics

Extant species

The genus Drymophila contains the following eleven species:[6]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Ferruginous antbird Drymophila ferruginea Atlantic Forest
Bertoni's antbird Drymophila rubricollis southern Atlantic Forest
Rufous-tailed antbird Drymophila genei mid Atlantic Forest
Ochre-rumped antbird Drymophila ochropyga Atlantic Forest
Dusky-tailed antbird Drymophila malura Atlantic Forest
Scaled antbird Drymophila squamata Atlantic Forest
Striated antbird Drymophila devillei southern Amazonia ;
eastern foothills of Colombia and Ecuador
Santa Marta antbird Drymophila hellmayri Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
- Klages's antbird Drymophila klagesi Serranía del Perijá, Cordillera de Mérida
and Venezuelan Coastal Range
- East Andean antbird Drymophila caudata western slope of Cordillera Oriental (Colombia)
& upper Magdalena valley
Streak-headed antbird Drymophila striaticeps Northern Andes

Former species

Formerly, some authorities also considered the following species (or subspecies) as species within the genus Drymophila:

Range

Six of the Drymophila species are associated with regions of southeastern Brazil; two of these - Bertoni's and dusky-tailed antbird - also range into eastern Paraguay and extreme northeastern Argentina.

Even at their highest diversity in Brazil's Mata Atlântica, the species are almost completely parapatric, in some cases like the dusky-tailed and scaled antbird even to exclusive habitat preferences. Of course, the rampant deforestation in that region may obscure that there has been more overlap in the past. In any case, habitat fragments strongly tend to hold at most a single species.[10]

D. devillei, the striated antbird, is a species of the southwestern quadrant of the Amazon Basin, and a disjunct population lives in north-western Ecuador and adjacent parts of Colombia.

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Thamnophilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. ^ Goerck, J. M. (1999). "Ecology, evolution, and biogeography of Drymophila antbirds (Thamnophilidae, Aves) in the neotropics". ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
  3. ^ Swainson, William (1824). "An inquiry into the natural affinities of the Laniadae, or shrikes; preceded by some observations on the present state of ornithology in this country". Zoological Journal. 1: 289–307 .
  4. ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1951). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 209.
  5. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 140. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  6. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  7. ^ "Symposiachrus trivirgatus - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  8. ^ "Monarcha cinerascens - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  9. ^ "Myiagra alecto - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
  10. ^ Rajão & Cerqueira (2006)

References

  • Rajão, Henrique & Cerqueira, Rui (2006): Distribuição altitudinal e simpatria das aves do gênero Drymophila Swainson (Passeriformes, Thamnophilidae) na Mata Atlântica . Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 23(3): 597–607. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752006000300002 PDF fulltext
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