Yellow-browed antbird

Yellow-browed antbird
at Manacapuru, Amazonas state, Brazil.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Thamnophilidae
Genus:Hypocnemis
Species: H. hypoxantha
Binomial name
Hypocnemis hypoxantha
Sclater, 1869

The yellow-browed antbird (Hypocnemis hypoxantha) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

The yellow-browed antbird was described by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1869 and given its current binomial name Hypocnemis hypoxantha.[2]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Hypocnemis hypoxantha". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. Sclater, Philip L. (1868). "Descriptions of some new or little-know species of Formicarians". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (3): 571–575 [573]. The volume is dated 1868 but the issue was published in the following year.
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