Band-tailed antshrike

Band-tailed antshrike
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thamnophilidae
Genus:	Thamnophilus
Species:	T. melanothorax
Binomial name
	Thamnophilus melanothorax; Sclater, 1857
Synonyms
	Sakesphorus melanothorax

The band-tailed antshrike (Thamnophilus melanothorax) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in the eastern Guianas of Suriname and French Guiana mostly; also Brazil, Guyana, and Atlantic regions of the Amazon Basin, and some local regions upstream on the Amazon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical swamps.

The band-tailed antshrike was described by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1857 and given the binomial name Thamnophilus melanothorax.[2] It was subsequently placed in the genus Sakesphorus. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2007 found that Sakesphorus was polyphyletic and that three species including the band-tailed antshrike were embedded within a clade containing members of Thamnophilus. The band-tailed antshrike was therefore moved back to its original genus.[3][4]

References

BirdLife International (2016). "Thamnophilus melanothorax". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22701266A93820750.en.
Sclater, Philip L. (1857). "Descriptions of twelve new or little known species of the South American family Formicariidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 25: 129–133 [133].
Brumfield, R.T. (May 2007). "Proposal (278): Transfer some Sakesphorus species into Thamnophilus (Thamnophilidae)". South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 23 February 2018.

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[iucn-1] BirdLife International (2016). "Thamnophilus melanothorax". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22701266A93820750.en.

[2] Sclater, Philip L. (1857). "Descriptions of twelve new or little known species of the South American family Formicariidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 25: 129–133 [133].

[3] Brumfield, R.T. (May 2007). "Proposal (278): Transfer some Sakesphorus species into Thamnophilus (Thamnophilidae)". South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society. Retrieved 8 March 2018.

[ioc-4] Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 23 February 2018.