Sipia

Sipia
Dull-mantled antbird (Sipia laemosticta)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Thamnophilidae
Genus:Sipia
Hellmayr, 1924

Sipia is a genus of passerine birds in the family Thamnophilidae.

The genus contains four species:[1]

These species were formerly placed in the genus Myrmeciza. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Myrmeciza, as then defined, was polyphyletic.[2] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera these four species were moved to the resurrected genus Sipia which had been introduced by the Austrian ornithologist Carl Eduard Hellmayr in 1924.[1][3]

References

  1. 1 2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Hellmayr, Carl Eduard (1924). "Catalogue of Birds of the Americas and the Adjacent Islands". Field Museum Natural History Publications. Zoological Series. 13 (3). Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History: 224.
  • South American Classification Committee (February 22, 2016). "Proposal (#628) to South American Classification Committee – Reassign species currently placed in Myrmeciza into 12 genera". Retrieved January 28, 2018.
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