Pearly antshrike

Pearly antshrike
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Thamnophilidae
Genus:Megastictus
Ridgway, 1909
Species: M. margaritatus
Binomial name
Megastictus margaritatus
(PL Sclater, 1855)

The pearly antshrike (Megastictus margaritatus) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is monotypic within the genus Megastictus.[2] It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.[1]

The pearly antshrike was described by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1855 and given the binomial name Myrmeciza margaritatus.[3] The genus Megastictus was erected by the American ornithologist Robert Ridgway in 1909.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 BirdLife International (2012). "Megastictus margaritatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "ITIS Report: Megastictus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  3. ↑ Sclater, Philip L. (1854). "Descriptions of six new species of birds of the subfamily Formicarinae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 22 (275): 253–255 [253] Plate 71. The title page gives the year 1854 but the volume was not published until the following year.
  4. ↑ Ridgway, Robert (1909). "New genera, species and subspecies of Formicariidae, Furnariidae, and Dendrocolaptidae". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 22: 69–74 [69].
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