Terenura | |
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Streak-capped antwren (Terenura maculata) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thamnophilidae |
Genus: |
Terenura Cabanis & Heine, 1860 |
Type species | |
Myiothera maculata
zu Wied-Neuwied, 1831
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Terenura is a genus of insectivorous passerine birds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae.
The genus was erected by the German ornithologists Jean Cabanis and Ferdinand Heine in 1860 with the streak-capped antwren as the type species. [1] [2] The name of the genus comes from the Ancient Greek words terēn for "soft" and oura for "tail". [3]
The genus contains two species: [4]
The genus formerly included an additional four species but these were moved to the newly erected genus Euchrepomis based on the results of a genetic study published in 2012. [5]