Cercomacroides | |
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Dusky antbird (Cercomacroides tyrannina) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thamnophilidae |
Genus: |
Cercomacroides Tello et al., 2014 |
Cercomacroides is a genus of passerine birds in the family Thamnophilidae.
The genus contains six species: [1]
These species were formerly placed in the genus Cercomacra. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Cercomacra, as then defined, was polyphyletic. [2] The genus was split to create monophyletic genera and six species were moved to the newly erected genus Cercomacroides with the dusky antbird as the type species. [1] [2]