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Genus of birds
Myrmoborus is a
genus of
passerine birds in the
antbird family , Thamnophilidae.
The genus was erected by the German ornithologists
Jean Cabanis and
Ferdinand Heine in 1860 with the
white-browed antbird as the
type species .
[1]
[2] The genus name is a combination of two
Greek words: murmos , meaning "ant" and -boros (from "bibros"), meaning "-devouring".
[3]
The genus contains five species:
[4]
White-browed antbird , Myrmoborus leucophrys (
Tschudi , 1844)
Ash-breasted antbird , Myrmoborus lugubris (
Cabanis , 1847)
Black-tailed antbird , Myrmoborus melanurus (
Sclater, PL &
Salvin , 1866)
Black-faced antbird , Myrmoborus myotherinus (
Spix , 1825)
White-lined antbird , Myrmoborus lophotes (
Hellmayr &
Seilern , 1914)
The
white-lined antbird was previously placed in the genus
Percnostola but a genetic study published in 2013 found that it is embedded within Myrmoborus .
[5]
References
^
Cabanis, Jean ;
Heine, Ferdinand (1860).
Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German and Latin). Vol. 2. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 9.
^
Peters, James Lee , ed. (1951).
Check-list of Birds of the World . Vol. 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 220.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010).
The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. p.
264 .
ISBN
978-1-4081-2501-4 .
^
Gill, Frank ; Donsker, David, eds. (2018).
"Antbirds" . World Bird List Version 8.1 . International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 February 2018 .
^ Isler, M.L.; Bravo, G.A.; Brumfield, R.T. (2013).
"Taxonomic revision of Myrmeciza (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) into 12 genera based on phylogenetic, morphological, behavioral, and ecological data" (PDF) . Zootaxa . 3717 (4): 469–497.
doi :
10.11646/zootaxa.3717.4.3 .
PMID
26176119 .